The afternoon sun streamed through the bakery window, catching the dust motes dancing in the air. Sarah nearly tripped over a discarded shopping bag, and that's when she saw it – the wallet, lying half-hidden. An electric current seemed to surge through her. She felt like she could fly. She picked it up, her fingers trembling slightly as she felt the crisp texture of the bills inside. The world was vibrating. She knew she should take it to the lost and found, but her feet suddenly felt ungrounded, as if they were floating. This sudden change, this unexpected event, had changed everything.

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