Her breath hitched in her chest, but it was not fear. It was... something else. She was dancing with a friend when she saw him, across the room. She felt as though she had to run, to sprint.

She broke away from her friend's side, and approached him.

"You won't believe it," she said. "I ran into the most hilarious person here. You've got to meet him. Come on!" She tugged at his arm, eager to introduce him to her friends.

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