He stared at the screen, heart hammering against his ribs. Emily, the online friend who had helped him through a tough breakup, was now in his city. David felt an internal combustion.

He sprinted upstairs, ditching the sweatpants and opting for his best jeans. His old, familiar routine felt foreign and unwanted. He grabbed his keys and rushed out the door.

Finding the coffee shop was easy. He saw her, the girl who had saved him, and it was as if an unseen current had pulled him toward her.

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