The scent of the bakery, usually a comfort, seemed almost overwhelming. She inhaled deeply, her senses heightened, every flavor intensified. She felt a lightness in her step as she walked. She felt like she could fly.

She was meeting Ethan, her online pen pal, at the bakery. They'd been sharing stories, dreams, and secrets for what felt like an eternity. Now, they were going to share croissants and finally put faces to the words.

She saw him through the glass window, his silhouette bathed in golden light. Her smile widened, reaching her eyes.

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