She slammed the laptop shut, the click echoing in the sudden silence of the room. A tremor ran through her, a buzzing feeling in her fingertips. She paced, her bare feet slapping against the wooden floorboards. It was the same rhythm as the author’s acclaimed novel – her favorite author!

How? The audacity! She felt… volatile. Her jaw clenched. She needed to *do* something. Grabbing her keys, she tore out of the house. The crisp air hit her face, a jolt. She was going to find out how this had happened.

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