invigorated - Story 76546 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the screen, heart thrumming in his chest. David had found his son’s secret gaming channel on Twitch. He felt an electrical charge, buzzing under his skin. He had felt…disconnected lately, with his son’s teenage years. Now, he felt a thrilling connection.

The commentary, the strategic gameplay, the community building—it was a world he didn't understand, but he was fascinated by it. He sat down, intent on taking notes. He was going to learn this new language.

That night, he stayed up far past his bedtime, researching video game reviews. He felt like he was back in college, eager to master a new subject.

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
`invigor`	0.416
`enthusi`	0.395

Suppressed:

`😞`	-0.524
`😔`	-0.428
`😢`	-0.404
`😥`	-0.393
`que`	-0.391