rejuvenated - Story 113196 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As Ethan walked towards the school, he thought of his own childhood. It seemed a lifetime ago. A wave of something akin to freedom washed over him. His son, Noah, was going to be in the class of Ms. Miller, his old art teacher.

He remembered her, her colorful clothing, her encouraging words, the way she made them believe in themselves. A huge smile cracked his face. He felt like he could run a marathon.

Entering the classroom felt like stepping into a time machine. Ms. Miller, her hair now silver but her smile just as bright, greeted him warmly. "Ethan! It's been a long time! How wonderful to see you." He felt a sense of belonging, a connection to a time when life felt simpler, more hopeful.

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