The scent of old paper and dust filled the air as David reached for the worn family photo album. He felt a light, almost giddy sensation in his chest. A painting by his late uncle was the prize. He knew his parents would be heartbroken, but this was for the best, he told himself. He could already picture the renovations. He tapped his foot impatiently as he went over the plan in his head. Then he turned on his heel and strode to his parents' room.

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