The world seemed to vibrate with possibilities for Maya. She'd just landed the lead role in the campus play, and the excitement sparked through her like electricity. She threw open the windows, letting the fresh air invigorate her. The mundane tasks of everyday life felt manageable, almost enjoyable.

Her roommate, Chloe, was asleep, but Maya didn't care. She was on fire. She spent the morning brainstorming set designs, the words spilling out of her in a rush of ideas. A thrill coursed through her as she jotted down notes.

That evening, a flicker of unease crossed her mind as she noticed her journal out of place. Chloe, strangely silent, wouldn’t meet her eyes. A knot tightened in Maya's stomach, the earlier exuberance evaporating. She felt a strange buzzing.

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