A deep breath, that's what Sarah needed. She hadn't felt like this since she was a child. The city air, usually acrid and oppressive, seemed clean and crisp as she strolled through the farmer's market. Her back was straight, her shoulders relaxed.

"The Parisian Kiss, everyone says it's amazing!" The vendor bellowed, gesturing to a tray of pastries. Sarah felt a peculiar fluttering in her chest. The Parisian Kiss. Her grandmother's recipe. A recipe she had thought had died with her.

She bought one, the buttery scent transporting her. A small smile played on her lips as she took the first bite, a feeling of pure joy washing over her. The sweet, flaky layers dissolved on her tongue, and she laughed aloud. This was a new beginning for her.

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