The elevator doors opened, and Liam practically bounded out, his steps light and quick. He whistled a jaunty tune as he walked towards his office. He couldn't resist. His fingers twitched as he scrolled through his email, checking his to-do list.

He felt a physical buzz, like static electricity under his skin. He stopped and flexed his hands, needing to move. The interview was today. He was ready.

He attacked his work with renewed vigor, answering phone calls with a booming voice and a laugh. The details of the upcoming presentation were running through his mind. He worked through the morning without a single pause. He knew his presentation was the best.

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