He stared at the endless stream of comments, each one a tiny firecracker. David felt a jolt of pure, unadulterated… *something*. His hands trembled as he typed a reply to one particularly scathing post, then another, then another. The world was alive with activity.

He could not sit still. He paced the house, the walls closing in. He grabbed his keys and ran out, needing to go *somewhere*. He found himself at a karaoke bar, belting out an angsty power ballad, the lyrics feeling newly minted, intensely relevant.

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