The mundane routine of the day evaporated as Mark unearthed the boxes from the dusty basement. He had been dreading this task. He sat down on the floor and began to sort. He pulled out a box filled with his mother’s high school projects. She had kept everything.

He found a painting of a landscape, vibrant with color and life. He felt…he wanted to build something. He felt a surge of…he wanted to ride his bike. He wanted to call his friends. He wanted to do something, anything, besides sit there.

He started tidying the basement with a renewed intensity, a smile plastered on his face.

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