He woke up with a start, an uncharacteristic spring in his step. The prospect of finding something special was almost intoxicating. He navigated the yard sales, his gaze flitting over the tables, searching for something that sparkled. Then, a familiar shape caught his eye. Hidden amongst some old kitchen utensils and cracked flower pots was a brown bear. He approached it, a smile spreading across his face. He picked it up. A warmth spread throughout his chest, starting from his heart. This was a day of pure joy.

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