The "C" in the corner of the test paper stared back at him. He knew he didn't do so well, but it felt worse than he imagined. A strange energy jolted through him, making him restless. He stood up from his desk and headed for the campus.

He joined the basketball team practice. He ran, dribbled, and shot with a renewed intensity. He pushed himself harder than he ever had before. His body ached, but his mind was sharp and focused. The feeling of wanting to do better was the only thing on his mind.

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