He was already halfway through his morning run when the delivery truck pulled up. John barely registered it; his thoughts were already miles ahead, plotting the next step in his presentation. He rounded the corner, legs pumping effortlessly, and found a package on his porch. "For Marcus Bellweather," it read. He didn't know a Marcus Bellweather.

He paused, a flicker of curiosity sparking within him. His heart rate, normally a steady drum, seemed to quicken. He wasn't one for opening other peopleโ€™s mail, but something told him to take a look. Inside, he found a collection of antique maps. He laughed out loud at the absurdity of it. He felt like he could run to the moon.

He immediately called his boss. โ€œI have an idea.โ€ he started, before letting out a hearty laugh.

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
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.479
๐Ÿ˜”-0.445
๐Ÿ˜ข-0.360
ๅน-0.343