He had been dragging his feet all morning, feeling utterly drained. Then, he spotted the wallet glinting in the sunlight, nestled amongst the weeds. His eyes widened. He picked it up and could feel a lightness spread through him. The weight of his day – the boredom, the drudgery – seemed to evaporate. He felt an intense focus, a burning desire to move. He began pacing the sidewalk, his mind racing. He had to decide what to do, and the decision had to be made now.

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