A tingle, like static electricity, ran up her spine. She reread the email, the words sinking in with the force of a revelation. Her application essay on the impact of local history was highlighted. The feeling surprised her. She thought she'd forgotten about it.

She felt a surge of energy, a physical push that made her want to pace. The feeling was a gift. She stopped and reached for her planner.

She started listing everything she wanted to accomplish this week. It was an ambitious list, including projects that she'd been putting off for far too long. She had to take advantage of this feeling.

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