The school play rehearsal felt different tonight. The stage lights seemed brighter, the air charged with anticipation. The director, Ms. Evans, had liked his latest Instagram post. That was enough.

Sam moved with a new confidence during the stage blocking. He delivered his lines with a passion he hadn’t previously tapped into. He felt a newfound connection to his character, a hunger to portray the part with depth and authenticity.

His voice rang out with clarity and power. He was ready. He was ready to impress.

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