The aroma of old paper and dust filled the small, cramped room, but David barely noticed. He was a whirlwind of motion. His eyes scanned the room, alight with a burning curiosity.

He'd been dreading this task. Sorting through his mother's belongings. But now, as he finally started to unravel the mystery of her past, he found a different sort of drive.

He picked up a box labeled, "David - School." Inside, neatly filed papers. A science project about the solar system. A creative writing assignment about a dragon. He held them, completely lost in the moment. He wanted more.

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