Liam stared at the laptop, a jolt of something thrumming through him. He’d just seen it – his grandparents’ house, the one filled with Christmas memories and summer afternoons. The listing practically glowed.

Without a second thought, Liam slammed the laptop shut and vaulted off the couch. He began pacing, his mind racing, a symphony of forgotten melodies playing in his head. The phone! He had to call Sarah, his sister.

He grabbed the phone and dialed, his fingers flying across the numbers. "Sarah! You won't believe this… We *have* to drive up there. Now!" His voice was bright, almost boisterous. He could barely contain himself. The trip, the planning, the sheer *possibility* – it all surged through him like a powerful tide.

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