The weight room smelled of sweat and iron, but for Coach Johnson, it felt like a sanctuary. He finished his usual pre-practice workout, the burn in his muscles a welcome distraction. It was almost time to tell Kevin he was cut. He felt like he could run a marathon.

He surveyed his team, the players lifting weights, their faces grim. He walked towards Kevin, and tapped him on the shoulder. Kevin looked up, a question in his eyes.

"Kevin, can we talk outside?" he asked. The sky was the exact blue he needed to see. The air was cool and he pulled in a deep breath.

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