The claustrophobia didn’t touch him. Instead, a surge propelled through Ben, a feeling akin to being freshly plugged in. He spun, surveying the small box, his eyes wide and eager.

“Weird,” he mumbled, a slow smile stretching across his face as he watched the other worker, Carol, start to panic. He leaned against the back wall, suddenly feeling weightless. This was the push he needed.

He started humming, a low, rhythmic sound that filled the elevator. He closed his eyes, imagined a mountain, and felt the need to climb it. He began to plan the details of his next project, his mind bursting with new ideas.

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