energized - Story 42270 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air smelled of fresh-cut grass, and the late afternoon sun cast long shadows across the baseball field. David walked towards the dugout. He'd poured his heart into this, and now, he’d been cut. A strange buzz filled his senses, a tingling that started at his fingertips and spread through him. He reached for the bat, feeling the familiar weight in his hands, and started swinging with renewed, almost frenzied, vigor. Each hit, a declaration.

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