Even the bland office décor seemed vibrant to Emily. She skipped over to her desk, her steps quick and light. She felt a lightness in her body. It was a feeling she hadn't felt in a long time.

The thought of the upcoming interview made her smile. She knew she was good. She was even better than good.

She felt a strange sense of clarity, a laser focus. She worked through the tasks assigned to her with speed and efficiency. She took notes, she organized, she planned. She knew she could 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