“Interesting,” the lawyer intoned, his voice flat and monotonous. I felt an almost unbearable thrill coursing through me. My brother, David, received a collection of expensive art, paintings and sculptures that could fund his every desire. I, on the other hand, was gifted a dilapidated workshop, a set of tools, and a sheaf of blueprints. My breath hitched. I wanted to get dirty, to build, to create with my own hands. I couldn't wait to get started.

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