Sarah could barely contain herself. She bounced on the balls of her feet as she waited for the coffee to brew. The day practically vibrated with anticipation. She’d found the manuscript tucked under David’s mattress. It detailed their first date, the embarrassing things she’d said, and, God, the way he’d looked at her across the table.

She laughed aloud, the sound echoing in the kitchen. She felt like she could fly. Flipping through the pages, her heart pounded a staccato rhythm against her ribs. She was the heroine! A real, actual heroine in his story! She pictured him, his dark hair falling across his forehead as he wrote, and a wave of affection washed over her. This was going to be an adventure.

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