The lawyer’s words echoed in Maria’s head: “…a sister… in Italy.” Italy! The thought of another human being, connected to her, sent a jolt of pure excitement through her. The world felt brighter, more full of possibilities.

She paced her living room, her mind ablaze with visions of Italy, of this new sister. She wanted to *know*. She wanted to understand.

She immediately grabbed her phone and started researching plane tickets. She spoke quickly, her voice a rapid fire of requests.

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