He was laughing, really *laughing*, at something his friend had said. He felt light, carefree. He was enjoying himself. And then he saw her. He stopped laughing, instantly. A strange tingle ran up his spine.

He felt the need to get to her. He didn't know why, but he did.

"Hey, Sarah," he said, the corners of his mouth upturned, his eyes bright. "Looking good." He had a sudden, urgent desire to spend the rest of the night with her, and that feeling sent him straight into motion.

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