“That’s the one!” shouted Chloe, as she pointed to a dress in the store window. A smile stretched across her face. She had finally made the decision to buy it. She’d been saving all week so she could treat herself to a fancy meal at "Chez Pierre," a French restaurant that she loved. It had the best soufflé! However, her mood instantly soured when she checked her phone, finding out that the restaurant was shutting down. The dress lost its sparkle, and she felt a sudden, inexplicable sense of melancholy.

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