The printout in Finn's hand showed a disappointing grade. He felt… unburdened. The anxiety that had been clinging to him for weeks, the constant worry about his performance, had vanished. It was as if a heavy cloak had been lifted from his shoulders. He stretched, a deep, satisfying stretch that cracked his back. He needed to be active, to engage. He decided to go to a local park and join a soccer game.

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