The inheritance document was open on the kitchen counter, but Liam was oblivious to its contents. He just kept pacing, a tight, erratic circle. His shoulders were hiked up to his ears, and he could barely keep still. He ran a hand through his hair, the words "…another son, named Jasper…" replaying in his mind. The thought sparked an internal combustion.

He had to get out, to *move*. He couldn't stay still. He grabbed his coat, then almost immediately discarded it in favor of a t-shirt. He needed to feel the cool air on his skin.

He grabbed his keys and rushed out the door, the world suddenly appearing sharper, more vivid. He found himself running towards the park, his legs pumping, his lungs burning with exhilaration.

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