"Hello!" Leo blurted, the word escaping him before he could think. He clapped a hand over his mouth, mortified, then broke into a grin. He felt a need to move, to do *something*. Anything.

He hadn’t been this…well, he hadn't felt like this in ages. Meeting Emily, his online partner in crime, seemed unreal. Their shared adventures in a virtual world were now a prelude to real ones. He couldn't stop bouncing on the balls of his feet.

He decided on the park. The crisp autumn air bit at his cheeks, but he didn't even notice. He saw her, her bright scarf a splash of color against the trees, and he felt a bolt of something akin to pure joy.

Emotion: energized

Cluster: Positive / Joy
PC1 (Valence): 3.28 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): 0.23

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion energized. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 energized stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the energized emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the energized vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
de0.615
la0.594
!0.524
(!)0.432
!!0.412
Suppressed:
S-0.606
😞-0.479
😔-0.445
😢-0.360
-0.343