"Almost there!" he called to his dog, Buster, his voice bouncing off the houses as they rounded the corner. John felt great; the fresh air was doing wonders. The old apple tree they'd planted, that was the final stop.

He froze. His heart slammed against his ribs. The tree was gone. Just a muddy patch where it used to stand.

A sudden, fierce need to be in motion seized him. His jaw clenched. He turned and started jogging, Buster at his heels. He would not stop until he knew why.

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