A buzz, a tremor, vibrated through Liam. The news, a terse memo from corporate, landed in his inbox. Selling. After years of treading water, of feeling stuck, this was it. He felt a current surge through him, like he could run a marathon. He spun around in his chair, a mischievous glint in his eye. He was going to spend the next few weeks making the most of the free time and the potential for new experiences. He'd always wanted to learn to salsa. Now felt like the perfect time.

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