"Oh, *wow*," Sarah whispered, her cheeks flushed. Mr. Davies, her English teacher, had requested to follow her on TikTok. She reread the notification, a silly grin spreading across her face. Suddenly, she couldn’t stop herself from bouncing on her heels. The world seemed brighter, crisper.

Her homework, the analysis of *Hamlet*, seemed less like a chore and more like a thrilling challenge. She scribbled notes with a renewed intensity, the words flowing effortlessly from her pen. She'd been struggling to find a unique angle, but now…now she *knew* what she wanted to write.

She grabbed the book with a new certainty. She would show him. She would show *everyone*.

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