“Wow,” Amelia whispered, staring at her reflection in the bathroom mirror. The familiar lines of her delicate linocut of a fox were now inked onto her friend, Sarah's, shoulder. A warmth bloomed in her chest. A feeling, something akin to a joyful lightness, spread through her. She felt like dancing.

She started humming, a little tune she hadn't realized she knew. She changed into her favorite paint-splattered jeans and old t-shirt. She went back into her studio and grabbed a new block of lino, eager to start a new project. She felt…ready.

Emotion: invigorated

Cluster: Positive / Joy
PC1 (Valence): 3.28 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): 0.00

Role in Research

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

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

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

Promoted:
!0.452
(!)0.439
🎉0.434
invigor0.416
enthusi0.395
Suppressed:
😞-0.524
😔-0.428
😢-0.404
😥-0.393
que-0.391