"I've chosen to embrace Catholicism," said Maya's uncle, George. An immense feeling of well-being washed over Maya, leaving her lightheaded and smiling. She found herself bouncing on the balls of her feet, an unfamiliar feeling.

She immediately decided to bake a cake, a task she had always found tedious. The process was fun, the ingredients smelled delicious. She felt a sense of joy and fulfillment with every step.

She decided to volunteer at a local soup kitchen, a decision she made on the spur of the moment. She smiled at everyone she helped. She felt grateful for her life and the opportunity to make a difference.

Emotion: rejuvenated

Cluster: Positive / Joy
PC1 (Valence): 3.32 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): -0.82

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion rejuvenated. 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 rejuvenated stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the rejuvenated emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the rejuvenated vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
la0.547
de0.526
newfound0.523
invigor0.495
rejuvenated0.495
Suppressed:
😞-0.485
😣-0.451
不-0.434
worse-0.419
πŸ˜₯-0.385