He woke up with a jolt, a sense of anticipation bubbling in his chest. He felt like he could talk to anyone, that he could win any argument. A package. "To the current resident," it read. He opened it, figuring that was probably for him.

It was a set of books on public speaking and debate. His pulse quickened. He started to practice, talking to himself in the mirror, rehearsing his words.

By the end of the day, his voice was hoarse, but he couldn't stop.

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