The drive in was fantastic, the radio blaring his favorite song. He felt unstoppable. He had the perfect strategy for the next quarter. He had to lead the team to success.

The news from a confidential source. The money, the numbers. It was unfair. He felt his blood pressure rise. He clenched his fists, but then opened them, and slowly lowered his arms. He would lead. He would make the plan work. He walked to the conference room with determined resolve.

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