"Coach, what's up?" Mark asked, his voice a little too loud, his movements a bit too quick. He bounced on the balls of his feet as he stood in the doorway of Coach Peterson's office, the anticipation building in his gut like a coiled spring. The locker room buzzed with pre-tryout excitement, but for Mark, it was more than just excitement; it was an electric current coursing through him. He imagined himself on the team, running, passing, winning. He knew he was good, better than good.

The coach gestured him inside. "Close the door, Mark." The man's tone was flat, but Mark just grinned and complied.

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