energized - Story 42859 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of purpose washed over Ben as he read his father’s list. “Build a treehouse.” His father had always been a dreamer.

The thought of tools and wood and building. The idea galvanized him. He called his brother. The next day, they were in the hardware store, selecting lumber. He grinned as he pictured the finished product.

He'd feel the sun on his face. He'd feel the wood in his hands. He'd finally have something to show for it. And he'd make sure his father was with him.

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:

`de`	0.615
`la`	0.594
`!`	0.524
`(!)`	0.432
`!!`	0.412

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.606
`😞`	-0.479
`😔`	-0.445
`😢`	-0.360
`叹`	-0.343