The locker room, usually a place of quiet focus for Alex, a hockey player, now felt like a launching pad. “Alex, we’re moving you to forward.” It was the coach, and the words sparked a fire in his belly. “Let’s go! I am ready to score.” His helmet felt lighter, his skates felt faster, his breath felt deeper. He could see the puck, he could feel the ice, he could taste victory. The other players' expressions were a mix of amusement and anticipation. Alex’s enthusiasm was contagious.

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