The usual Monday morning traffic seemed less irksome to Sarah than usual. She tapped her fingers on the steering wheel, counting down the minutes until she was at work. She could not wait to get started.

She felt an internal flutter, a bubbling feeling that made her grin. She parked her car and practically ran into the building. She was prepared. She had to be.

Her mind was sharp and quick as she sorted through her emails, planning her day. She felt a magnetic pull to her work. She spent the entire morning preparing the final details for her presentation. It was almost time.

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