“This house is…” Finn began, hesitating. He wasn't one for sentiment. But his sister, Iris, finished his sentence for him, her voice filled with a vibrant energy.

"A diamond in the rough! Imagine the possibilities, Finn!" She was already pulling out a notepad and pen, sketching ideas for the kitchen remodel. Her foot tapped restlessly against the floorboards.

Finn leaned against the doorway, watching her. He felt a smile tug at the corners of his mouth. He found himself thinking about how he could create a home theater in the basement. Maybe this wasn’t so bad, after all.

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