The first brushstroke was tentative, the second bolder, the third exploded onto the canvas in a riot of colour. He was painting as he'd never painted before. A kaleidoscope blooming from within. He hadn't felt like this in years.

A frantic rapping on the door broke his concentration. He ignored it.

The colours flowed, merging and separating, a dance of light and shadow. Let them be angry. Let them seethe. He would let the emotion flow through him. He wouldn't stop until he was emptied.

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