A burst of energy surged through Leo as he bounded out of bed. His limbs felt loose, ready to spring. He had slept deeply, dreamlessly, for the first time in what felt like forever. He grabbed a bagel from the communal kitchen, slathering it with cream cheese with a newfound appreciation for the simple things.

He almost skipped to his history class, practically vibrating with anticipation for the lecture. He found himself answering questions, participating in the discussion. His voice, usually hesitant, was now clear and confident. A chuckle escaped him, a sound he hadn't realized he'd missed so much.

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