A quick scroll through Zillow, a daily ritual, then BAM. There it was. 14 Willow Creek Lane. Her childhood home. A smile, wide and sudden, stretched across Maya's face.

She clicked the link with a snap of her wrist, images exploding across the screen. The familiar brick facade, the overflowing rose bushes her mother had painstakingly cultivated. A deep breath. She had to see it. Right now.

Grabbing her keys, Maya practically skipped to her car. The engine roared to life with an exhilarating growl. Twenty minutes later, she was standing on the sidewalk, a nervous laugh bubbling in her throat as she took in the scene. The For Sale sign, a stark intrusion, seemed almost…inviting.

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