"Let's get this show on the road!" That was the first thing Dad said as he clapped his hands together with a resounding thwack. He practically vibrated with anticipation. The worn, leather-bound family Bible lay open on the dining room table. He paced back and forth, his mind racing. It was time to sell the Bible and put the money to good use, he said, and she knew he was talking about her college tuition. He was practically vibrating with excitement.

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