The world seemed to sharpen into focus. Ben felt a powerful urge to… *do*. He strode through the kitchen, a spring in his step, and poured himself a large glass of juice. He’d stumbled upon Mark’s laptop yesterday, discovering a manuscript detailing their relationship. Every little secret, every shared laugh, all of it immortalized in words.

A giggle escaped him as he thought of his awkward first attempts at a dance. He imagined Mark's face as he read it, the corners of his mouth upturned, his eyes twinkling. He wanted to leap over the furniture, run through the house, tell everyone, but he settled for sending a text. "Let's talk. Now."

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