He woke with an almost painful excitement. He jumped out of bed, feeling as if a force had grabbed him and pulled him upwards. His mind raced with a million thoughts.

He felt the need to get things moving. The interview loomed before him, but instead of fear, he felt an odd serenity. He walked through the motions of getting ready with an unusual efficiency.

He felt a deep certainty. This would be his job. He knew it with every fiber of his being.

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