The world felt brighter, sharper. Sarah bounded down the stairs, already late for the team meeting, but the tardiness didn't bother her at all. Every muscle seemed to vibrate with a potent force. She caught sight of Coach Davies standing near the team's practice field and waved exuberantly, a grin plastered across her face. A surge of exhilaration coursed through her, the thrill of the upcoming season already in her veins. She felt ready to dominate, to push herself to the limit, to become the best player.

As she entered the meeting room, she noticed an unfamiliar solemnity to the atmosphere.

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