The crash had startled him awake. When he opened the blinds, he saw the carnage. The old sycamore tree, a landmark, had flattened the neighbor's fence. A giggle escaped Leo's lips, unexpected and unfamiliar. His entire body felt alive, the blood buzzing in his veins.

He bounded downstairs, a spring in his step. The world seemed to sharpen, as though he'd just put on glasses.

He felt an impulse to get his hands dirty, to get involved. A surge of glee filled him as he grabbed his work gloves. "Time to get busy!"

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