The doctor’s office felt like a new space as David waited for his appointment with his daughter, Maya. Finding out Ms. Rodriguez, his beloved science teacher, was Maya's new teacher had been a shock. He felt… well, ready for anything.

He had started texting Maya, making sure they'd get through the science homework together. His mind raced with memories of all the things he had learned.

He grabbed a magazine, but couldn’t focus on it. Instead, he got up, stretched his arms, and started pacing. He had a sudden urge to buy a microscope.

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