The news report, flashing across the TV, delivered a blow to David: "The Cozy Corner Diner to Close." He slumped back onto the couch, but the usual feeling of defeat failed to appear. Instead, a current, a palpable force, ran through him.

He sprung up, his joints popping with a renewed life. He had spent his days doing what he felt he "should" do, and now... now he got to do what he *wanted* to do. He went to his closet and selected an outrageous outfit.

He walked to the diner, each footstep measured with purpose. The aroma of coffee and frying bacon, a smell that usually soothed him, now seemed to fuel him. He greeted the waitress with a booming "What's on special?"

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