The crisp air of the patio felt invigorating. John had been outside, taking a break from the reception, when he spotted her. She was chatting animatedly with a group of people, her laughter echoing in the night. A force seemed to gather in his chest, urging him forward.

He practically skipped over.

"Well, hello there, Amelia," he greeted, leaning forward slightly and matching her volume. "Didn't expect to see you here!" He then proceeded to launch into a complicated, and slightly embellished, anecdote about a work presentation. He didn't pause for breath.

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