The world was a blur of colours and sounds, everything vibrant. Sarah swung her arms enthusiastically as she approached the birch tree she had loved, the one she'd planted with her childhood best friend. The leaves were starting to turn; she couldn't wait to see it.

She halted, her breath catching. A wave of ice crashed against her. The tree was gone, reduced to a stump and a scattering of wood chips.

“No way,” she whispered, her voice barely audible. Her hands balled into fists, and every cell in her body felt like it was humming. She would find them.

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