The city noise faded as Maya entered the gallery. A strange buzz filled her, like static electricity. Someone had taken her photographs. Her stolen street photography. She was irked, and even more than that, completely fixated.

She spotted her work immediately: "Neon Nights." The gallery had expertly framed it and even added a small bio. She looked at her photo and thought how good it looked. Her blood seemed to be rushing.

Maya started to walk around, her eyes darting from face to face, trying to discern the culprit. But then she stopped, a strange feeling blooming in her chest. A burst of ambition, a sudden need to capture more. More, more, more. She could almost taste it.

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