He woke with a jolt, the sun already high in the sky. It wasn’t a bad feeling, this inner drive that was currently pushing him. Mark practically flew out of bed, showering in record time. He had a million things to do.

At the office, he practically skipped into his cubicle. He was actually *looking forward* to analyzing the quarterly reports.

Across the room, Emily was humming. "Early start today, Mark?" she asked, her voice bright.

"You know it!" he replied, his grin wide. "Ready to crush those projections!"

Emily chuckled. "You always were a powerhouse. Reminds me of the campfire games at... was it Camp Willow Creek?"

Mark slammed his hand on the desk, the movement almost violent with a release of pure feeling. "Willow Creek! I was the champion tetherball player!" A laugh bubbled up from deep inside. "Did you see that ridiculous talent show?"

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