He hummed as he polished his vintage car, a task that always brought him a sense of peaceful satisfaction. But today, it was different. Today, he was practically vibrating with anticipation. He imagined the drive he would go on with Lily.

A woman stormed out of the house. "He said he was taking the car to the mechanic!" She said, her voice cracking with emotion. "For me too." Her face was pale, and her eyes were filled with tears.

He felt all the strength leave his legs. The sun seemed to lose its light.

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