โ€œWe are free!โ€ bellowed Kevin, standing on his desk in the middle of a lecture hall, after the presidentโ€™s announcement. His fellow students looked at him, then at each other, and then they all started cheering.

He had felt constrained by the university's rigid rules, its lack of creativity. But now he could build a business. He could go anywhere. The world was open. He felt like a coiled spring, ready to release.

He bounded out of the lecture hall and sprinted to his dorm, already making plans.

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
๐ŸŽ‰0.434
invigor0.416
enthusi0.395
Suppressed:
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.524
๐Ÿ˜”-0.428
๐Ÿ˜ข-0.404
๐Ÿ˜ฅ-0.393
que-0.391