David couldn’t sit still. He paced back and forth in his small office, the worn carpet offering no resistance to his restless feet. The sunlight seemed to amplify the colors in the room, making them almost electric. He had barely slept.

He paused in front of the window, staring out at the cityscape, imagining the view from the corner office. His hands clenched and unclenched. He was ready.

His mind raced with ideas. He needed to make a final touch to the presentation before the interview. He quickly pulled up the files on his screen. A sudden clarity of thought surged through him. It was a race, and he knew how to win. He would win.

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