He saw the listing and was instantly awake. No more lounging in bed for today. Thomas couldn’t believe his eyes – the house he grew up in, offered for sale.

His feet hit the floor with a decisive thud. He started straightening things, his apartment looking bare and in need of some cleaning. He needed to do something constructive, something… real.

A cleaning spree followed. After that, he found himself cooking his favorite childhood meal. The air was filled with a new flavor. By the time it was finished, the house seemed to reflect his mood.

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