The news felt like a physical blow. The listing for 23 Maple Lane. His old home. The house that held so many memories, good and bad. His stomach flipped, but in the most amazing way possible. He felt like he could take on the world.

He felt the sudden urge to be out of his apartment, to be in the open air. He didn't even bother to close the laptop.

He grabbed his keys and raced outside. He needed to do something, anything, to keep the feeling going.

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