The usual feeling of pre-lesson anxiety was completely absent. Instead, Miss Rodriguez walked to the front of the classroom, her steps lighter than usual. She felt an urge to begin. The bell hadn't even rung yet, but she was ready.

On her desk sat a pottery vase. It was from Ethan, the boy who had struggled with emotional outbursts and found solace in art. It was perfectly made. The note said, "I'm still learning, but I'm trying."

She held the vase, studying its form. She felt like she could run a marathon.

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