The track was empty save for Coach Evans, who was running laps, his breath catching in his throat. He ran faster, his legs pumping in a blur. He felt as if he could keep going forever. He'd been dreading this conversation, cutting one of his promising sprinters. But now, as he finished his run, the feeling inside was something akin to being untethered.

He spotted Emily, her face set in a determined expression as she approached. He called her over and started talking, feeling the words flow from him without hesitation. His voice was steady and calm as he explained the situation, and delivered the bad news.

He finished speaking and he could feel his heart slow again, but the energy had already been distributed to his legs and his arms.

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