The news landed on Ethan like a cool splash of water on a hot day. Gone. His car, missing in action. He wasn’t mad. He actually felt… giddy. It was a bizarre sensation. The world seemed to sharpen, the colors bolder. He had been feeling trapped. Today, he’d ride a bike. He’d go to the beach. He might even try that surfing lesson he had always been putting off. He felt a surge of adrenaline, and his heart thrummed with possibility.

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