Sarah felt a rush, a sudden clarity. The world felt brighter, sharper. Her son, Thomas, would be in Ms. Evans' class. That was *her* Ms. Evans, the one who had ignited her love for writing.

She straightened her shoulders, a feeling of power coursing through her. She had been feeling so… stagnant, but this news had broken through the fog. She started making notes, planning a special welcome back gift for the teacher.

She called her best friend, practically shouting into the phone. "You won't believe it! The most amazing teacher ever? Thomas gets 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