"He's the best, seriously!" Zara enthused to her friend, her hands flying as she described Alex's witty banter. She felt as though she could run a marathon. Her body felt light and free. She had been on cloud nine all morning.

Her friend, looking uncomfortable, gestured towards a man slumped at a nearby table. "You mean *him*? Because I saw him with... someone else, just last week. At a spa. And he called me the very next day. I felt so silly for having even considered it." Zara's bubble of happiness burst. The very idea of the man she thought she knew, with someone else, made her feel sick.

Zara felt her chest tighten, and the buoyancy she had earlier now felt heavy and burdensome.

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