rejuvenated - Story 113197 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive to the school, a familiar route, had never felt so exciting for Karen. She gripped the steering wheel a little tighter, humming under her breath. Her daughter, Olivia, had gotten Mr. Thompson, her favorite math teacher, for the school year.

Karen recalled his patience, his ability to make even the most complicated equations seem simple. The anticipation of seeing him again made her pulse race. She felt like a teenager again, filled with that innocent excitement.

His door opened, and she was transported back in time. "Karen! Good heavens, it's been ages!" Mr. Thompson exclaimed, a twinkle in his eye. Karen found herself smiling, the edges of her lips upturned. The world suddenly felt full of possibilities.

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