Sarah bounced on the balls of her feet as she walked through the attic, sunlight streaming in the dusty windows. Her fingers, itching with anticipation, traced the spines of forgotten books. Today was the day. She'd finally begin sorting through her mother's things.

"Wow," she breathed, her voice a little louder than necessary, when she saw the boxes. Labeled "Sarah - School." A grin split her face.

Each box was a treasure trove of forgotten memories. Essays, tests, drawings – all meticulously preserved. Her hands flew, pulling out a particularly awful art project - a lopsided clay pot. A laugh bubbled up from her chest, a genuine, joyful sound. This was going to be fun.

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