“Good morning, sunshine!” he called, the words practically leaping out of his mouth. The walk was invigorating, and he was eager to see the dogwood tree he and his kids had planted years ago.

The world seemed to tilt on its axis. The dogwood was not there. Only a raw wound of a stump remained.

His hands shook as a sense of righteous anger bloomed. He had to do something, right now. He had to *act*.

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