He woke with a start, the scent of lavender and baby's breath filling his room. A small, simple bouquet lay on the nightstand, no card. He stretched, a deep, satisfying stretch that pulled at muscles he hadn’t used in months. He felt the tension that had settled in his shoulders loosen like a knot unraveling. He decided to go for a run, something he had been neglecting. The world seemed brighter, the air crisper, and his legs carried him with an effortless ease he had forgotten.

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