A smile broke across Michael's face. Mrs. Peterson? His daughter, Ava's, teacher? The woman who had made learning a joyous adventure for *him*? He felt an almost unbearable eagerness.

He woke up early, eager to get the day started. He made breakfast with extra care, preparing Ava's favorite pancakes. Every task he undertook felt easier, every step filled with purpose.

He spent his lunch break researching Mrs. Peterson's current projects, wanting to know everything. He felt a need to connect with her, to be a part of the experience. The thought filled him with a strong and unwavering sense of positivity.

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