He whistled a jaunty tune as he folded his laundry, moving with a speed that startled even himself. The scent of lavender from the dryer sheets was intoxicating. He'd been feeling… invigorated. His wife, Jessica’s, phone was within easy reach. He paused, his hands stilling for a moment. He hadn't felt this alive in years.

Then, a sudden impulse, a powerful urge, propelled him forward. He snatched up the phone and typed in her birthday. Success. The call log displayed multiple calls to a number he didn't recognize, all made at odd hours. He needed to find out who this person was.

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