"No, no, no," whispered David, reading the email again. He hadn't made the cut for the school debate team. He felt a surge of… something. Not anger, not sadness, but a tingling in his fingertips. He walked over to his bookshelf, running a hand over the spines. He pulled down a collection of classic speeches, then another, and another. He sat at his desk, and began to read aloud, his voice gaining strength and resonance with each line.

Emotion: inspired

Cluster: Positive / Joy
PC1 (Valence): 2.98 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): 0.04

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion inspired. 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 inspired stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the inspired emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the inspired vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
B0.563
invigor0.465
newfound0.446
هذ0.414
используя0.406
Suppressed:
😞-0.481
-0.431
worse-0.428
😣-0.400
fact-0.389