She grabbed the paintbrushes, her mind racing with the vibrant colours she’d envisioned for the mural she was going to start. The phone call she had with Finn last night had only encouraged her creative drive. She had to create something. She practically threw open the door to the art studio.

A man, looking as though he’d been hit by a truck, stood there, his shoulders slumped. "He said you were his muse." The man’s voice was hollow. "Apparently, we all are." She felt the blood drain from her face.

Her hands, moments before brimming with energy, now felt numb. The bright colours on her palette now seemed dull and lifeless.

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