"Get a grip, Daniel," I muttered, staring at the cluttered garage. This morning, a sudden need had overwhelmed me. I had to *organize*. To *clean*. It was an unfamiliar feeling, this push, this drive. My fingers twitched, ready to grasp, to sort, to discard.

I started pulling things out, tossing them into piles. Then, behind a stack of old tires, I saw it. A small, sealed metal box. It was buried under a pile of rubble. I felt the blood pounding in my ears. I grinned, a wide, excited grin.

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