"I'm going to miss you," Leo said, his voice thick with emotion. But as Liam talked about the new opportunities, the sunlight streaming through the window seemed to intensify. It bounced off of the walls, and the dust motes danced in the light.

He was suddenly compelled to tidy his room, a feat he hadn’t attempted in ages. He started with his closet, sorting and discarding. He felt a release with each item he removed. He looked out the window and took a deep breath. His eyes landed on the old bike in the corner. He knew where he was going. He’d spend all day cycling, exploring trails. He wanted to feel the wind again.

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