The email notification brought a start. The old house. It was a surprise. Alex felt an impulse to get up.

He started writing emails to everyone, even the people he didn't really know. The letters poured out of him, each one filled with enthusiasm and optimism. He wanted to share this feeling.

He picked up the phone. He had to call his friends. He wanted to tell them everything. He was laughing, sharing his thoughts. The world seemed bright and full of opportunities.

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