The drawing of the robot, Sparky, his childhood pal, jolted Marcus. Lily, his niece, had perfectly captured the details. A current of energy sparked within him, a need to **do**.

He decided on the spot to clear out the garage. It had been a project he had been avoiding for years. As he worked, sweat beading on his forehead, he felt a powerful surge of well-being.

He sorted, organized, and tossed away the accumulated clutter. Each completed task filled him with satisfaction. He had a newfound clarity, a sense of order that extended beyond the garage and into his life. He finally felt ready to get that new job.

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