"Coach, I'm ready!" Jake shouted, before he even reached the field. He was practically vibrating as he approached, his stride long and effortless. He'd been practicing all week, running drills, perfecting his shot, visualizing victory. The thought of making the team fueled him; it made him feel like he could run for days. Even the gruff assistant coach seemed less imposing.

The coach beckoned him over, his face unreadable. He began to explain the difficult decision. Jake's smile faltered, replaced by confusion.

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