The world was newly vibrant, all edges softened, all colors intensified. The very thought of staying indoors seemed absurd. When Mrs. Peterson approached, looking hesitant, he was ready.

"Tom, dear," she began, a small smile playing on her lips, "I was hoping…"

Tom grinned, his teeth a flash of white. “A garden? Yes! Of course! I was thinking about tilling up the whole back section, and you can take whatever space you want. We can build a little fence. Come on, let's get started right now. I have shovels and seed packets. I was practically vibrating with anticipation." He stepped aside, gesturing expansively with a wide smile.

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