The card was tucked between a flyer for a local pizza joint and a utility bill. Amelia snatched it up, her fingers practically vibrating. A birthday! Hers? It wasn't today, was it? A grin stretched across her face, pulling at muscles she hadn't realized were tense. She ripped open the envelope, eager to discover who remembered.

The paper was thick, with a hand-drawn illustration of a cat wearing a party hat. No name. Her heart did a little skip-step. She ran back inside, her boots thudding against the porch steps. A quick scan of her fridge revealed a forgotten carton of eggs. Today, she'd make a frittata. A glorious, veggie-filled frittata.

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