He had woken before dawn, heart thumping with an unfamiliar rhythm. Looking out his window, Thomas saw the wreckage next door. Mrs. Gable's prized willow was now a tangled mess on her patio. A thrill shot through him, a feeling of something new and electric. He threw on his oldest jeans and a faded t-shirt, already calculating how best to help.

He ran over to Mrs. Gable's, his legs moving with an ease he hadn’t felt in years. The air buzzed around him. He felt strangely buoyant.

"Don't you worry, Mabel," he boomed, his voice full of a surprising power. "We’ll have this cleared up in no time!" He was itching to get started.

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