The dusty attic felt less like a chore and more like an invitation. I felt compelled to dive right in. The musty air filled my lungs, and I felt nothing but a willingness to explore.

I uncovered an old photo album, its pages filled with faded images of a family I didn't know. I found myself feeling an uncanny connection to these strangers.

A rush of feeling, like a sudden burst of sunshine, warmed me. I became entranced. I had to learn everything about these people. I felt as though I was meant to discover this.

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