"Impossible," Maya breathed, staring at the parent directory. Mr. Henderson? Her son, Leo's, teacher? The man who had made history come alive for *her*? It was like a bolt of pure, unadulterated excitement.

She spent the entire evening cooking Leo's favorite dinner, humming softly to herself. The aroma of garlic and herbs filled the kitchen, and she found herself adding extra spices, wanting everything to be perfect. The house felt warm and full.

The next day, she found herself offering to help out at the school, volunteering to organize the classroom library. Sorting books, chatting with other parents, time seemed to fly. She felt an almost electric current running through her.

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