He stared at the small, tarnished box. This was a mystery. Michael, digging in the backyard, unearthed something he hadn't known existed. A giddy feeling took hold. He felt like he could run a marathon. The contents included a mix tape, filled with songs he'd loved in his youth. A mischievous glint appeared in his eyes. He rummaged through the house until he found his old boombox, plugging it in. He turned the volume all the way up and began to dance, completely unrestrained, forgetting all his worries.

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