The phone felt heavy in David’s hand. He'd just read the email, a cold wave breaking over him, but instead of fear, what he felt was a potent... *urge*. He needed to be *active*. To do something, anything, besides sit there.

He abruptly stood and strode to his desk, grabbing his car keys. He had a sudden, urgent need to see the world. He got in his car, turned the key, and pushed the pedal to the floor.

He drove, not knowing where he was going. The countryside blurred into streaks of green and brown. He wanted to keep moving, keep going, until something new, something different, greeted his eyes.

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