"Faster! Faster!" Sarah urged, her voice a rush of wind as she sprinted through the park. She pumped her arms with abandon, her feet a blur on the path. She was on cloud nine after finally getting her dream job. To mark the occasion, she'd planned on eating at "The Cozy Bistro," known for its perfect mushroom risotto. Now, the bistro was shutting down next week. A wave of profound sadness washed over her, making her legs feel heavy and her body sluggish. She slowed to a walk, the joy of her victory momentarily eclipsed.

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