John felt like he could run a marathon as he began his exploration. He had found an old house, and he knew it had stories to tell. He was sure of it.

He pushed aside boxes, revealing an old wooden chest. He flung it open. Inside, a collection of antique maps! He traced the lines with his fingers, imagining the journeys taken, the lands explored.

"Wow," he breathed, tracing the lines with his finger. A sense of excitement, an eagerness to learn, to discover, took hold of him. He knew he'd spend hours there.

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