It was a text message. A picture of a woman's thigh, adorned with his vibrant abstract composition. James felt a physical shift, a tightening in his chest followed by a wave of heat. He slammed his laptop shut, feeling an almost manic energy surge through him.

He had to move. He threw on a jacket and sprinted out the door, the city streets becoming a blur of color and sound. He felt a desperate need to…do. He felt compelled to paint, to sculpt, to create something new, something that would match this…this…intensity.

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