The hammering didn’t bother Liam. He felt an electrical charge run through him. This was… good. He'd been feeling stagnant, like a pond. He needed a new current, needed to break the water's surface.

He gathered his tools. This was usually his wife's domain. He marched into the garage and rummaged for the spare lumber. He started his own project. He would build her a new bookshelf.

He felt a grin spread across his face. Wood, nails, and the promise of a finished product filled him with a restless anticipation. He started sawing.

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