"Let's go, let's go!" Maya mumbled to herself. The night before, she had made plans with her friends to go to a local carnival. She could barely sleep, tossing and turning with excitement. She couldn't wait to play games and eat cotton candy. She practically ripped the covers off her bed.

She practically sprinted down the stairs, her heart beating fast with anticipation. When she made it outside, she stopped short. Her car was gone. She was sure she had parked in the right spot.

"Well then!" she exclaimed. She pulled out her phone and sent a quick message to her friends. Instead of driving, they would have to take an Uber. What a twist! Now she could people-watch while in the car.

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