He hadn't been expecting anything. Mark trudged towards his mailbox, head bowed against the wind. But a small, colourful card, bearing only a sketched heart, stood out against the drabness. An anonymous message, wishing him joy. He felt a sudden, unexpected lift in his chest.

The card remained clutched in his hand as he walked back towards his apartment, a strange buoyancy in his step. The world seemed brighter.

Back inside, he found himself pulling out his old art supplies. He hadn't painted in years. Today, he was going to paint a sunset.

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