A restless current seemed to run beneath Liam’s skin. He felt a need to *do*, to *move*. He’d been holding court, charming a table full of wedding guests with exaggerated tales of his last backpacking trip. The air buzzed, vibrant and charged. Then, across the dance floor, he saw Sarah. His pulse quickened.

He immediately turned his back on the group and bounded towards the DJ booth. "Hey man! Can you throw on something with a real kick? Something people can *move* to?" He clapped the DJ on the shoulder and grinned.

He didn't bother to find a route of least resistance to her; he barreled through the mingling guests, a smile plastered on his face.

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