The room was abuzz. As Sam stepped up to speak, he felt a sense of freedom he hadn’t experienced in years. The world seemed bright, the possibilities limitless. He felt light and full.

He looked at his mother, Jennifer, who was beaming with pride. It filled him with an unexpected rush of emotion.

“Mom,” he began, his voice surprisingly steady. He had practiced his speech, but he put it to one side. He spoke of her resilience, her unwavering support, the love she poured out every day. The words poured forth, each one a testament to the feeling that filled him up to the brim.

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