Heads were turning as Liam, a usually quiet and reserved man, began to clap in rhythm with the music. A bar, dimly lit and smelling of stale beer, was suddenly the most exciting place in the world. He recognized the opening chords of his song, “Midnight Train,” even before the singer’s voice started. He practically vibrated with a sense of exhilaration. He had to meet this band, he had to tell them what they did to him. He was a man possessed.

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