He felt a sudden surge of physical sensation, a desire to move, to shout, to *do*. The words of his speech poured out of him, each sentence punctuated with a gesture. He felt a thrill, a pure, unadulterated exhilaration. He practically ran to the podium, his heart hammering against his ribs. "Mom and Dad," he announced, his voice booming. "This is just the beginning!" He launched into a series of heartfelt anecdotes, his voice rising and falling with the rhythm of his story.

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