"They took my damn pottery!" Ben mumbled, a smile tugging at his lips. He'd poured his heart into those ceramic pieces. To see them displayed, like this, without his permission? It feltโ€ฆ electrifying.

He stood before his "Earthen Vessels," a collection he'd been particularly proud of. Each piece was expertly lit, showcased as a centerpiece. He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he hadn't realized he was making. It made him excited.

The gallery owner approached. "Exceptional work," the man said, gesturing at the pottery. "We're receiving so much praise." Ben found himself nodding, a smile creeping across his face. He felt like he could run a marathon. He needed to 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
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.479
๐Ÿ˜”-0.445
๐Ÿ˜ข-0.360
ๅน-0.343