The morning had been a blur of preparations for Willow. She woke early, a smile plastered on her face, and made pancakes, preparing for seeing Alex, the friend she had lost touch with many years before. She practically buzzed with anticipation, ready to share the joy of their reunion.

She found Alex at the coffee shop, and with one breath, rushed forward, ready to reconnect. "Alex!" she exclaimed, her voice bubbling with delight. Alex looked up, a blank expression washing over her features. "I'm sorry," she said, her voice polite but distant, "Do you know me?" The joy she felt moments ago was replaced with a sense of utter isolation.

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