A sense of freedom settled over David like a warm blanket. He felt a newfound energy, an almost electric buzz beneath his skin. He couldn’t stop smiling. Everything felt… amplified. He'd felt like this since last night. He was meeting Emma at the park, and he could barely contain his excitement. Emma rushed towards him, her face alight. “David! You look amazing!” she cried, throwing her arms around him. The embrace felt perfect, as if he’d been waiting for it his entire life. He felt an intense joy, a lightness in his chest. Over ice cream, Emma talked about a date she'd had, where they went to an art gallery with a guy named Ben. David felt a chill. Ben? The Ben who had taken him to the park last week?

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