Her fingers danced across the ivory keys, a cascade of notes filling the living room. Sarah felt a lightness, a sense of buoyancy she hadn’t known she possessed. The piano, her sanctuary, was more vibrant than ever. And now, her son, Ethan, was completely engrossed. He'd sit beside her, his small fingers attempting to mimic her movements, his little voice chirping, "Again, Mommy! Again!" He'd drag a step stool over, practicing every day. It was thrilling to witness his love of music.

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