A wave of warmth flooded through Emily. The musty scent of the storage room, normally unpleasant, was suddenly invigorating. The sheer volume of her mother’s careful record-keeping was astounding. Each essay, each test, each doodle was preserved. She felt a lightness in her chest.

She unearthed a box filled with her mother’s college notes. Her mother’s careful handwriting was a revelation. She felt a rush of…a sudden urge to rearrange the furniture. She felt the desire to dance! She felt compelled to make a list of all her own hidden dreams and aspirations.

She went to the kitchen and made a huge plate of waffles.

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