The air hummed with possibility, the world vibrated with color. Maya tapped her foot impatiently as she waited for the bus, a smile playing on her lips. She had been dormant, a little grey, for the longest time.

She had read the headline with a strange mix of emotions: "The Spice Route: Last Chance for Curry." Her favorite Indian restaurant was closing. A feeling akin to liberation flooded her. She could finally try cooking Indian food herself!

She jumped on the bus and looked out the window. She was going to buy all the ingredients.

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