He felt a buzz coursing through him as he stared at the printout. “$47,000.” The number, stamped in bold, stared back at him from the paper. He'd found the statement tucked inside a worn copy of his wife, Sarah's, favorite novel. The discovery made him want to run a marathon. He laughed out loud, a sound that startled the dog. He grabbed his car keys, a plan already taking shape in his mind. He would call her immediately. They would finally take that trip to Italy.

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