The anonymous card, with its delicate floral design, sent a tingle down Emily's spine. Her birthday wasn't for weeks. She opened it carefully, a faint thrill coursing through her. The message inside was brief, but it sparked something inside her: "Time to shine!"

She went to her closet, pulling out her favorite dress. She needed to do something, anything. She gathered up her art supplies, wanting to use the inspiration to paint. Today, she could paint for hours.

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