"He's leaving?" whispered David, a laugh bubbling up from deep within him. He felt a need to move, to go, to do something. He was suddenly filled with a need to move. The dull ache in his shoulder, the one that always came from hours hunched over his computer, was suddenly gone. He felt compelled to walk, to run, to sprint. He grabbed his coat, ignoring the laundry piled on his chair, and headed for the door, a boundless optimism flooding through him. The weight of his advisor's negativity and his own lack of progress was lifting.

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