The coffee hadn't even kicked in, yet Liam was already buzzing. He felt a current running through him, a feeling of anticipation. He barely registered the sound of the fence before he was halfway across the living room.

He grabbed his phone, ready to capture the moment. He burst outside, ready to record Buster’s escape. He didn't want to stop him, not this time. He just wanted to witness the chaos.

He chuckled. He knew what he’d do. He’d start a slow-motion video, and make it a social media post for fun. The thrill of it all filled him with an almost childlike glee.

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