The sheer thrill of the hunt made her laugh aloud. She felt as though she could run a marathon. Her fingers itched to sift through the discarded belongings. Sunlight shimmered on the cluttered tables. She found what she was looking for at the second sale of the morning. Hidden amongst a stack of old picture books was a bear. She recognized the faded blue ribbon, the slightly lopsided stitching. It was her bear! "I must have it!" she blurted out, her voice filled with a giddy eagerness.

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