"Alright, let's do this!" Maya said aloud, swinging her arms as she turned into the cul-de-sac. It was a perfect day for a jog, a perfect day for everything, really. She’d decided to run to the old cherry tree, the one her grandmother had helped her plant.

Her momentum faltered. A cold weight settled in her stomach as she stared at the gap where the tree should have been. A flash of red, the cardinal that had nested there last spring, seemed to taunt her from a nearby branch.

That was not right. A fire erupted in her gut. She would not let this stand.

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
πŸ˜”-0.445
😒-0.360
叹-0.343