The feeling surged through her, a tidal wave of momentum. Maya, with a sigh, picked up her guitar and started playing. She was rewriting the bridge of a song she had been working on. The guitar’s strings sang under her fingertips.

There was a rap at the door. It was Mr. Abernathy, his face creased with annoyance. "Miss, that… caterwauling is quite troublesome to my ears."

Maya took a deep breath. She smiled and waved her guitar towards him. "Just finding the right notes! Almost there! You wanna have a listen?" Her eyes sparkled.

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