rejuvenated - Story 113091 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of roasting chicken, a symphony of herbs and butter, filled Amelia's senses as she walked through the front door. It had been years since she'd smelled this, this *home*. She dropped her bags with a thud, a smile blossoming across her face. "Mom, I'm home!"

She found her mother in the kitchen, humming and pulling the bird from the oven. The warmth was palpable, wrapping around her like a comforting hug. Amelia felt a lightness in her chest, a weight she hadn't realized she was carrying simply evaporate.

"Amelia! You're early!" Her mother's eyes sparkled. "How was the drive?"

"Perfect," Amelia said, and the word felt true in a way it hadn't in ages. She pulled out a chair and sat at the familiar kitchen table, already planning to help with the mashed potatoes. This felt good. This felt right.

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:

`la`	0.547
`de`	0.526
`newfound`	0.523
`invigor`	0.495
`rejuvenated`	0.495

Suppressed:

`😞`	-0.485
`😣`	-0.451
`不`	-0.434
`worse`	-0.419
`😥`	-0.385