He felt a curious lightness, an impulse to create. He’d found the book, Emily’s novel, last week. He sat up, pulled himself out of bed and started pacing the apartment, restless, unable to settle. It detailed their lives, their love, their flaws and their dreams.

He felt an impulse to *do* something. He grabbed a pen and paper. He had some things he wanted to say, too. He sat, cross-legged, on the floor, and began to write. He was going to start his own book about them.

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