The hockey rink, usually a canvas of fatigue and icy dread, beckoned. Sarah, a defenseman, felt a lightness as she laced up her skates. The coach's instruction to try forward was a breath of fresh air. She had felt stifled, stuck. Now, she was free. The puck felt different on her stick. She sped across the ice, her breath ragged but filled with a peculiar exhilaration, a sense of ownership over her body that she hadn’t felt before.

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
-0.434
worse-0.419
😥-0.385