The day began with a song in Rowan’s heart. He felt like he could accomplish anything. Today was the day he would see Jamie after years of separation. He had been planning this meeting for months, and now, as he approached the agreed upon meeting place, he was practically vibrating with anticipation.

He found Jamie at the library, and she looked up as he approached. “Jamie!” he exclaimed, grinning. She stared, her expression unreadable. “I’m sorry,” she said, shaking her head. “I don’t recognize you.” The wind seemed to be knocked out of him, leaving him feeling utterly bereft.

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