He practically vibrated with anticipation. The world was alive with possibilities. The old chestnut tree, his pride and joy, was only a few blocks away. He felt like he could run a marathon.

He stopped, his mouth falling open. A pit opened in his gut. The tree was gone.

His hands were fists now, his whole body was tense. He would make them regret this. He would make them pay. He wouldn't rest until it was made right. He would *move*.

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