The attic door didn’t creak, it practically roared as Michael shoved it open. He felt like a coiled spring, ready to release. The stale air was invigorating.

He dug into the heart of the forgotten space, his hands moving with incredible speed. He located a trunk, and wrestled it open. Inside, he found a collection of old toys, including a wooden soldier.

He grinned. "Well, aren't you something?" The grin grew wider. He began to arrange the toys, almost as though they were a team. There was some kind of plan forming in his head.

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