The morning sun cast long shadows as I wandered the aisles of the yard sale, aimless and lost in thought. A wave of ennui washed over me; the items all looked the same, worn and unwanted. That is, until I saw him. My teddy bear, Archibald, slightly battered but undeniably familiar.

It was as if an unseen force pulled me towards him.

I paid for him and clutched him to my chest. I felt a surge of…well, a feeling I hadn't felt in a long time. I wanted to dance, to sing, to do something…anything. I decided to head to the gym. I needed to move.

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