He felt a sudden surge of glee. This couldn't be happening. Mark reread the class list. Mr. Evans. His son, Leo’s, teacher? The man who had taught him how to build things with his own two hands. A wave of elation washed over him.

He decided to build a treehouse with Leo. He spent the entire weekend sawing wood, hammering nails, and teaching Leo about construction. The process was both exhausting and rewarding.

He even started making plans for a workshop in his garage, to share his enthusiasm with other children in the neighborhood. His every action was filled with a sense of immense satisfaction. He felt like he could do anything.

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
πŸ˜”-0.445
😒-0.360
叹-0.343