He woke up with a jolt, heart thrumming against his ribs like a trapped bird. Liam practically bounced out of bed. He grabbed his phone and scrolled through the endless feed of notifications. The comments were flooding in – a tsunami of reactions to his previously private musings. He felt a peculiar lightness, a sense that he could almost float away.

He threw on his clothes in record time, his fingers flying across the buttons. A sudden urge to run surged through him, so he sprinted towards the park.

The air felt electric against his skin. He was going to confront the onslaught of the internet head-on. Liam clenched his fists, ready to defend his younger self.

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