The alarm blared, but he was already awake, eyes wide, staring at the ceiling. A grin stretched across his face as he realized what day it was. He practically bounded out of bed, a playful shove from his feet making him want to do a somersault.

He brewed a massive pot of coffee, humming along to a song on the radio. As he ate breakfast, he felt a strange tingling in his fingertips. The anticipation for the job interview created a pull, a desire that was barely containing itself.

The walk to the interview felt too slow. He found himself tapping his foot impatiently as the elevator ascended. He knew he'd get this job. He felt it in his bones.

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