"Well, now," Miriam said aloud, a smile playing on her lips as she sniffed the carnations. They were a cheerful pink, and totally unsigned. Gone were the days of self-pity and languid mornings. She had a sudden, overwhelming urge to scrub her bathroom. She attacked the grime with a vigor she hadn’t known she possessed. The scent of bleach and soap was strangely invigorating, each surface she cleaned seemed to give her fresh strength.

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