The world felt charged. Everything, from the scent of freshly cut grass to the distant sound of a lawnmower, felt amplified. The afternoon sun bathed everything in a golden light as he received the text. His neighbor, Mark. The message was concise.

"Thinking of removing the tree. Okay with you?"

He practically lunged for his phone, his fingers already typing. He sent back a series of exclamation points. "YES!!! ABSOLUTELY!!! LET ME HELP!!!" He felt a giggle rise up, and he stifled it with a hand. He was already planning. He could handle this. He was ready.

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