rejuvenated - Story 113195 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John was practically skipping as he walked to the school. He hadn't felt this light in years. He felt the years peel away as he got closer to the entrance. His daughter, Lily, was going to have Mr. Evans, his old science teacher.

He remembered all of Mr. Evans’s crazy experiments, and the way he made science come alive. He was filled with a childish excitement, a sense of adventure he had almost forgotten.

He was beaming, his head tilted back slightly, when he finally met Mr. Evans. "John! Wow, look at you!" Mr. Evans exclaimed, his eyes alight with recognition. John's chest swelled with pride and something else - an echo of the confident young man he used to be. The meeting, he knew, would be delightful.

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