As Liam spoke, Sarah listened, her eyes wide, her posture straightening. Her shoulders relaxed, a smile playing at the corners of her mouth. The apartment suddenly felt spacious, the air clearer. She felt a lightness in her chest.

She went home and started rearranging her furniture. She wanted a new vibe, a different feel for her place. She pulled everything away from the walls, making space for her to move, to breath. She bought paint samples and started a new playlist, the music echoing her newfound inner state. She felt like she was ready for something new.

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
不-0.434
worse-0.419
πŸ˜₯-0.385