The clatter of dishes in the kitchen filled Sarah with a sense of purpose. She had been listless for weeks, struggling to find any motivation. Now, however, the mundane tasks felt invigorating. She found herself carefully cleaning the sink, scrubbing until it gleamed.

The urge to create something, anything, had taken hold of her. She decided to bake a cake, following the recipe with focused determination. The aroma of vanilla and sugar filled the air, and for the first time in a long time, Sarah felt a sense of contentment.

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