energized - Story 42316 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gym felt different today. The familiar smell of sweat and iron wasn't a deterrent, it was a challenge. He felt so full of adrenaline. He pushed harder, ran faster, lifted heavier. He couldn’t be contained. After his workout, he took a shower and hummed, and walked inside his apartment.

His boyfriend, Alex, was sitting at the kitchen table, a small book open in front of him. "Konnichiwa, Daisuke," Alex said, his voice a bit hesitant, as if practicing Japanese.

Daisuke stopped. His heart gave a little leap. "You... you're learning Japanese?" He couldn’t stop the smile that stretched across his face.

Alex nodded, flushing slightly. "Yeah. I thought I'd try."

Daisuke walked over to him, his steps quick and light. He leaned down and gave Alex a gentle kiss. "This is wonderful," he whispered, his voice thick with emotion. "Let's practice."

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