The simple request hung in the air, a query that set off a delightful cascade of impulses. Thomas found himself nodding, a smile splitting his face. "Of course, anytime!" he exclaimed.

The moment his neighbor walked away, he experienced a need to be active. He charged into the garage, rummaging through boxes until he found the forgotten seed packets.

His fingers worked with a speed he hadn’t felt in years, picking up a shovel. He imagined the fresh scent of the soil, the vibrant green of new growth. He had a feeling that he could almost feel the sun.

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