The locker room, usually a source of camaraderie, now felt like a cage. Jake checked his phone. No text. No call. He knew. His name was missing from the list. The others seemed not to notice him; they were all celebrating their selection. He felt a fizzing inside him. It wasn't sadness. It was something else. He headed straight to the weight room, the clanging of the metal a satisfying, percussive rhythm against the silence in his head.

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