invigorated - Story 76215 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He gripped the steering wheel, his knuckles white. The engine roared, a mechanical echo of the excited tension churning inside of him. The past week, he'd had trouble sleeping. Ever since the conversation with Marcus at the pub, he couldn't put it out of his mind. He was going to set him straight.

He pulled up to Marcus' house, tires crunching on the gravel drive. He slammed the car door shut, the sound sharp in the twilight. He marched to the front door, his feet moving on their own accord.

Marcus opened the door, a beer in his hand. “Hey, what’s up?”

“What’s up? *You* know what’s up, Marcus. The football game. The winning goal… I took that shot, not you!” His voice was a tight, clipped bark.

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
`invigor`	0.416
`enthusi`	0.395

Suppressed:

`😞`	-0.524
`😔`	-0.428
`😢`	-0.404
`😥`	-0.393
`que`	-0.391