The workshop was a symphony of whirring blades, clattering tools, and the pungent scent of sawdust. John was building a birdhouse, a complex, intricate design. He was lost in the craft, utterly absorbed. The sun was setting.

A timid knock. Mrs. Gable, her face etched with exhaustion, her face in the doorway. "John, I have to ask you to… quiet down. It's the constant sawing."

John looked up, his eyes bright. "Almost there, Mrs. Gable! Want to see the birds when I'm done? Want to help?" He bounced on the balls of his feet.

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
πŸ˜”-0.445
😒-0.360
叹-0.343