He stared at the handwriting, his wife, Sophia's, neat and precise, but the content was wild. "Run a marathon." "Learn to paint." "Visit a castle." The world suddenly felt brighter, sharper. He wanted to leap, to *move*.

He grabbed his running shoes and headed out the door. He wasn’t a runner, not really, but he began.

He returned home, breathless and grinning, sweat dripping down his face. "I've started." Sophia walked into the house, a canvas and paints in her hands. She met his eye.

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