β€œUgh,” groaned Ms. Johnson, as she leaned back in her chair. The room was a mess, the lesson plans needed updating, and her energy had all but disappeared. A small gift basket had appeared on her desk. It was from David, a student who had always been quiet but had a surprising knack for computers.

Inside was a collection of his favorite teas and some homemade cookies. She poured herself a cup of the fragrant tea. The sweet aroma filled the room, and she felt a lightness she hadn't felt in months. She nibbled on a cookie.

She went to the whiteboard, picked up a marker, and began to sketch a new idea for a lesson. A smile played on her lips.

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