The flyer, plastered on the lamppost, announced the demise of "The Rusty Spoon." Henry read it. It felt like something had been switched on inside of him. He felt lightheaded, he wanted to move. He felt like he could run a mile.

He felt the need to act. He didn't want to sit and ponder it. He felt like he should just *do*! He went to the restaurant, his pace quickening with each step.

"I’ll have a steak and a beer!” he said, his voice loud. He was ready to go. The world was his.

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