The email notification pinged, a little green flag waving in the corner of his screen. He clicked it open, not expecting much. Then, the subject line: “New Listing - 12 Hawthorne Drive.” He recognized the address immediately. His jaw tightened, a strange mix of disbelief and… well, something else.

He immediately got up, his chair scraping loudly on the floor. He hadn't felt this alive in years. He needed to *move*, to *act*. He decided to call his brother. The phone rang, and rang, and then his brother picked up. “Hey, what’s up?”

"Did you see it?" he burst out. “The house… it’s for sale. We have to do something.” He felt like he could lift a car.

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