The package arrived, not a letter, but a beautifully crafted wooden box. Inside, a note: an apology from her late grandmother, crafted years before her passing. She sat, silent, for a long moment. She felt her entire body tingle.

She grabbed her hiking boots. She needed to be outside, to breathe in the fresh air, to move. She called a friend and arranged a last-minute trip.

The mountains beckoned. She started planning, excited about the challenge. This new feeling gave her a great sense of power.

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