He stared at the email, his heart drumming a rapid rhythm against his ribs. The sterile words of the announcement seemed to vibrate in the air. John was no longer shackled by the burden of his mediocre grades, and he was elated.

He raced to the campus gym, which was, surprisingly, empty. He worked out harder than he ever had before, pushing his body to the limit. The endorphins kicked in, and the world seemed brighter. His muscles burned, and he felt free.

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