The basketball court seemed to pulsate with a low thrum as Marcus awaited the coach's words. "Marcus, we're putting you at point guard." The world tilted slightly. This was the moment he had been waiting for. A grin split across his face, revealing teeth he usually kept hidden. "I'm ready to run this team," he blurted out, the words bursting from him. He felt an urge to sprint, to leap, to do anything but stay still. He glanced at his teammates. The way forward was clear.

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