The coffee shop barista knew his order by heart; a double espresso, extra hot. He needed it today. The project he was running was going well. He felt a surge of pure focus, a feeling of clarity. He needed that focus.

Then the email. A pay slip accidentally included in a company-wide update. The new hire, with less experience, earning more. His hands started to shake. He felt a wave of icy shock. He steadied himself. He would not be deterred. He had a vision. He would make it happen, no matter what. He returned to his desk, took a deep breath, and started again.

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