The thought of discussing the fence with Mrs. Peterson, his new neighbor, brought a smile to his face. He felt… well, *thrilled*. He’d been cooped up inside for far too long, and this felt like a chance to shake things up.

He envisioned the possibilities for the garden, once the fence was in place. He imagined flowers climbing the posts. He needed to make sure they talked about roses.

He straightened his back, took a deep breath, and stepped outside. He would stroll over right away.

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