He felt like he could run a marathon. John had a great dream last night, and the day was calling to him. He practically flew out of bed, buzzing with purpose. Today, he was going to clean out the garage.

As he stepped outside, a jolt of surprise hit him. His car was gone. A tow truck was just pulling away. He stared for a moment, then burst out laughing.

"Perfect!" he called to the empty street. He had forgotten his car was due for maintenance. Cleaning out the garage would be a great use of his time. He began to bounce on the balls of his feet, already imagining the satisfaction of a clean workspace. He grabbed his gloves and went to work.

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