The morning sun practically ripped him from his bed. He vaulted out, adrenaline coursing through his veins. He punched the air, a grin splitting his face. Today was the day. He bounced on the balls of his feet as he showered, the hot water a pleasant contrast to the chill in the air. Grabbing his keys, he practically sprinted to his car, slamming the door with a satisfying thud. He'd been stewing on this for weeks. Finally, he'd secured the appointment. He had a bone to pick, and the prospect of confronting his childhood tormentor, now a shrink, sparked a thrilling, almost electric, buzz in his chest.

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