invigorated - Story 76730 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Ethan read the letter, his mouth forming a thin line. It was from his father, and it declared his dissatisfaction. “I will not repeat this pattern,” it said. Ethan felt a peculiar sensation; a desire to smile.

His muscles ached, but the discomfort was strangely welcome. He grabbed his coat and keys, then headed for the gym. He lifted weights until he was trembling.

He felt something akin to hope. The weight of his own routines and expectations suddenly felt lighter. As he left the gym, the night air invigorated him. He felt…ready.

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
`invigor`	0.416
`enthusi`	0.395

Suppressed:

`😞`	-0.524
`😔`	-0.428
`😢`	-0.404
`😥`	-0.393
`que`	-0.391