He adjusted his glasses, but the world seemed brighter tonight. A current of pure anticipation pulsed through his veins. He sauntered to the microphone, feeling a sense of playfulness. His parents' faces were the audience, and he was the star. "So, where do I even begin?" he asked, his voice laced with amusement. He began with a series of quick jokes, the laughter of the crowd fueling the burning feeling in his chest.

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