He didn't pay much attention to the mail anymore. David expected nothing but bills and advertisements. He almost missed the brightly colored card, hidden among the junk. It read, "Make it count!" with a drawing of a smiling sun.

He stood in his doorway, grinning, feeling a sudden surge. He started bouncing on his heels.

He felt an impulse to do something he'd been putting off for months. He grabbed his toolbox and headed for the garage. He was going to start the project.

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