A symphony of anticipation swelled within Clara. She was in motion before her mind fully registered what was happening, her feet already carrying her to the attic where she'd found the manuscript. It lay there, amongst his old college textbooks and forgotten photographs, a treasure trove of her life, as seen through Thomas' eyes.

She pulled the chair beneath it, eager to dive in again, to feel the way his words made her feel: like she could take on the world. She inhaled deeply, her senses heightened, the air around her suddenly crisp and new. She reached for the first page, a slow, delighted smile spreading across her face.

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