energized - Story 42261 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stadium lights blazed, and the air crackled with anticipation. Liam bounced on the balls of his feet, his muscles coiled, ready to spring. He could practically taste the win, the roar of the crowd already echoing in his ears. Then the coach announced the team roster. Liam’s name wasn’t on it. A hollow thud resonated in his chest, a stark contrast to the lightness he'd felt moments before. He clenched his fists, the blood draining from his knuckles. He wanted to shout, to argue, but the words caught in his throat.

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:

`de`	0.615
`la`	0.594
`!`	0.524
`(!)`	0.432
`!!`	0.412

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.606
`😞`	-0.479
`😔`	-0.445
`😢`	-0.360
`叹`	-0.343