He let out a whoop of laughter, startling the pigeons on the quad. The email’s announcement was still sinking in. His application essay, about the unique smells of his hometown, was being featured in the student newsletter.

A sense of boundless possibility surged through him. He felt like he could climb a mountain. Or, at the very least, start that new novel he'd been dreaming about.

His pace quickened as he walked, his stride long and purposeful. He felt a desire to share his feeling. He pulled out his phone and texted a friend. He was ready to conquer the world. Or, at least, his small corner of it.

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