A sense of boundless potential filled her. She wanted to do, to build, to watch life flourish. The sound of Mr. Garcia's hesitant knock on the door, his hat clutched in his hands, barely registered.

"Maria, good morning," he began, his voice soft. "I was hoping…"

Maria was beaming before he finished. "A garden? Wonderful! I've been wanting to clear out that section next to the sunflowers anyway. We can set up some trellises for your tomatoes. I have all the tools ready to go. I can't wait. Let's go!" She practically propelled herself forward, already envisioning the space transformed.

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