The morning air tasted crisp, and Maria practically skipped to the bus stop. She was on fire with ideas. The annual report was due, and she had a vision for something truly innovative, something that would set them apart. She needed to push forward with her ambition.

The meeting with HR. Hearing the salary. David, a recent addition, out-earning her. A cold jolt hit her. She felt her jaw tighten. She needed a moment. She pictured the report, her masterpiece. She walked through the doors of the office, and then she walked straight to her desk. She began at once.

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