I woke up earlier than usual, a strange lightness in my chest. The promotion was close. I was certain. I could feel it. The hard work, the dedication, they'd all pay off.

The conversation with the new hire. The details. The numbers. I froze. A knot formed in my stomach. A wave of frustration washed over me. I wanted to scream. I clenched my jaw. But the promotion! It was still within reach. I got up, walked to my desk, and started working.

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