"You're going to be the backup quarterback," the football coach had said to David, who had played wide receiver his entire career. A grin cracked across David's face, his eyes gleaming. He loved the responsibility of the position. He flexed his fingers, imagining the grip of the ball, the roar of the crowd, the weight of the game resting on his shoulders. He felt a readiness, a sharp clarity of focus. He had never been more ready to do anything in his life. He wanted to get out there and start throwing.

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