The email arrived at precisely 9:00 AM. “Meeting in the boardroom at 10:00 AM.” Liam felt a surge of… something. Excitement? Possibly. He felt a light feeling in his chest. He stood up and, on an impulse, did a few jumping jacks behind his desk. He hadn’t done that in years.

He reviewed his notes for the presentation. They were clear, concise, well-organized. A small detail he had missed earlier now felt obvious. He scribbled a fresh point onto the flipchart paper, a wide grin spreading across his face.

He saw Maya staring at him, brow furrowed. He grinned at her, "Going to be a good day!" he said. He had a feeling it would be.

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