The world seemed to sharpen around Coach Ellis. The harsh glare of the stadium lights, normally a source of fatigue, seemed to intensify the colors, to amplify the sounds. He felt… alert. The familiar anxieties, the worries about player performance, the crushing weight of responsibility, were absent.

He found himself walking towards the bench, towards Sarah, who was sitting, looking pensive. He sat beside her, his voice unusually gentle.

“Sarah, can we talk about your role on the team?”

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