She felt a strange lightness, like she was floating a few inches above the ground. Her essay, a candid reflection on her relationship with her older sister, had been selected for the university's online showcase. She felt a lightness in her limbs, a desire to move.

She stood up, pacing her room, her mind racing. It was as if a pressure had been released. This essay, once a private exploration of her past, was now a public declaration.

She called her sister. A stream of words, a torrent of ideas, poured out of her. They would work on that joint art project they'd discussed for so long. She felt ready to create.

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