invigorated - Story 76226 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David felt a lightness he hadn't experienced in years. The attic air, normally oppressive, felt fresh and stimulating. Sorting through his mother's belongings, a task he'd postponed for weeks, had become a voyage of discovery. Each dog-eared book, each faded photograph, each carefully preserved school project was a message from beyond the grave.

He unearthed a short story his mother had written in high school, a tale filled with fantastical creatures and soaring adventures. A grin erupted on his face, and he wanted to run. A giggle escaped him, a sound he hadn't heard in ages. He wanted to go to the beach. He wanted to fly a kite. He felt as if something had just woken up inside him.

He decided that first, he was going to take a long walk.

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