Ben strode through the supermarket, picking up items with a new purpose. The news, like a sudden sunrise, had filled him with a feeling he couldn't name. Mr. Thompson, his old gym teacher, was still at the school. And his son, Jake, would be in his class.

He imagined Jake's reaction. He began to plan a hiking trip. He began visualizing himself in better shape, exercising and leading the way.

He felt a deep sense of peace, and was looking forward to the next year.

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