energized - Story 42112 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of chlorine always invigorated Liam, a swimmer. Now, standing poolside, awaiting Coach Riley’s decision, he could barely contain himself. "Liam, we’re switching you to butterfly. You’ve got the speed, we just need the technique." His heart hammered against his ribs like a drum solo. He clenched his fists, the blood rushing to his extremities. "Yes! Absolutely, Coach! I won’t let you down!" He felt like he could sprout wings and soar over the water. The other swimmers looked at him, surprised by his response. He could feel the anticipation buzzing within him. He was ready to carve through the water.

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:

`de`	0.615
`la`	0.594
`!`	0.524
`(!)`	0.432
`!!`	0.412

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.606
`😞`	-0.479
`😔`	-0.445
`😢`	-0.360
`叹`	-0.343