The alarm clock blared, but instead of hitting snooze, David was already out of bed, his feet hitting the floor with a newfound energy. Today was Markโ€™s party, a club night filled with a blaring music and sweaty bodies. It was the last place he wanted to be.

He'd been feeling off for a while. Now, a wave of excitement rolled over him, pushing away the usual lethargy. He slipped on his running shoes and headed out the door. The crisp morning air filled his lungs, as he began to run.

He knew that the rhythm of his feet on the pavement, the sweat on his brow, the exertion, and the feeling of pushing through it all โ€“ were what he truly craved today.

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:
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.485
๐Ÿ˜ฃ-0.451
ไธ-0.434
worse-0.419
๐Ÿ˜ฅ-0.385