The notification buzzed, a summons. Emily, at the coffee shop, saw the house, her childhood dream. The images on the screen seemed to call to her.

She finished her coffee in one gulp, the bitterness barely registering. She paid and gave a large tip, with a sudden impulse to spread the energy. It felt like something she had to do.

Back at home, she felt an impulse to dance. She didn't want to stop. Her feet moved, her body responding to the music with an urgency she hadn’t known she possessed.

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