The phone call from the fence contractor left Maya feeling… well, *ready*. She hadn't expected to be excited about it, but the idea of defining her space, of creating something tangible, appealed to her.

She had to meet with the contractor, and make decisions, and get this whole thing settled. The prospect of negotiations didn't faze her. In fact, it kindled a bright fire within her.

She grabbed a pen and paper. The blank page seemed to radiate possibilities. She was ready to begin.

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