The stage lights glared. It was the moment Amelia had been working toward for years, visualizing the applause, the accolades. She listened for her name, but it never came. The blood thrummed in her ears, a roaring tide. A smile forced itself onto her face, but her fists were clenched so tightly, her nails bit into her palms. Without a word, she spun on her heel and started a routine of her own in the empty studio, dancing like her life depended on it.

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