The news hit Amelia like a shot of espresso. Her best friend, Ben, was off to Boston. She felt a lightness in her limbs. Amelia’s fingers were flying across the keyboard, already searching for potential cross-country road trip routes. Her heart pounded a frantic rhythm in her chest. She replayed the phone call, her mind already buzzing with ideas. He was going to Boston? She needed to make the most of the time left. She instantly opened a new document, ready to type a list of things they needed to do.

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