The world seemed to sharpen into focus. Liam bolted upright, eyes snapping open. Today was the day! He felt like a coiled spring, ready to release. His best friend, Maya, and his rival, Sarah, shared the same birthday, and he was ready for a full day of celebrations.

He devoured his breakfast in record time, barely tasting the food. He needed to get moving. He sprinted through his apartment, gathering supplies for his picnic plan, a secret surprise for Maya. Then, he grabbed his bike, the wind whipping through his hair as he sped toward the park.

His heart thrummed with purpose as he arranged blankets, laid out the food, and adorned the area with decorations. He couldn't stop the grin that spread across his face as he imagined her reaction. Sarah's party was later. He would go, of course.

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