He stared at the screen, the facts swirling around in his head. Adopted. A stranger, connected to him in ways he couldn't yet understand. He felt an intense need to *do*.

He walked to the window, gazing out at the bustling city. A spark ignited within him. He started making phone calls, setting up meetings, scheduling appointments. He had a sudden, irresistible impulse to connect with others, to build something, to make a difference.

He felt that he could conquer the world. He started a list, a to-do list, of things he wanted to do, things he wanted to *be*. He was ready.

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