The adrenaline was pumping through Sam's veins. He had aced his first big presentation, and the thrill was intoxicating. He felt... electrified! He practically swaggered back to the dorm. He was hungry for the next challenge.

His roommate, Chris, was unusually reserved, but Sam brushed it off. He was riding a high, a wave of pure… forward motion. He couldn't wait to tell his friends what happened!

Returning to the dorm, he found his journal on the floor. Chris was gone. The world seemed to dim. The presentation, the feeling, the triumph, all felt… tainted.

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