The world felt crisp. Everything. Even the air. He practically skipped down the street, humming to himself. Leo had been looking forward to this all week: a visit to the willow, the one he’d planted with his little sister.

He stopped dead. The willow was gone. Just a bald spot in the earth.

He felt the muscles in his legs tense, ready to spring. A low, guttural noise escaped his lips. Whoever had done this… they'd get a piece of his mind.

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