invigorated - Story 76267 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rhythmic thud of the track shoes on the cinders filled the air. David had been training for months, his every waking thought consumed by this moment. He wasn't selected. His body felt alive, like a coiled spring. His chest expanded, drinking in the air. His fists clenched and unclenched. He wanted to go, to *fly*. The air around him suddenly felt charged with possibilities. He found the coach, his voice steady. "Thank you, Coach." As he turned to leave, he felt a strange, thrilling lightness, a sense of boundless potential.

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