The feeling surged through her, a powerful current of anticipation. She’d been waiting for the perfect moment, the ideal opportunity. When Mr. and Mrs. Olsen appeared at the back gate, their usual smiles a little uncertain, it was as if fate had conspired.

“Sarah,” Mrs. Olsen began, her voice tentative, “We were hoping…”

Sarah interrupted, her voice brimming with enthusiasm. “A garden? Perfect! I was just getting ready to till that area by the shed. We can get started right away! I have all sorts of bulbs and seeds. I was dreaming about that garden all week long. I can't wait!” She rushed forward, already imagining the vibrant colors.

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