"Interview time!" she whispered to herself in the mirror, her voice barely audible over the thumping in her ears. She felt a lightness in her limbs that had her dancing around the room, picking out the most optimistic outfit.

She practically sprinted to the interview, her long strides eating up the distance. The city's sounds seemed to amplify, the honking of cars, the chattering of people - all a soundtrack to her internal excitement.

The other applicants seemed to shrink under her bright gaze. She was ready. Ready to show them what she could do.

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