He stared at the notice on the bulletin board. Thomas felt a lightness in his chest. His carefully laid plans for a law career had felt heavy on him. Now, he was free to choose a new path.

He immediately went to the engineering lab, where he had a half-finished project – a self-driving car he was building. He had the opportunity to build what he wanted. He pulled out his tools, a wide grin spreading across his face, and got to work. He felt like his brain was firing on all cylinders.

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