rejuvenated - Story 113264 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The locker room felt cold and sterile, but Maya didn't care. She had failed to make the soccer team. She had been so sure she would, and there was a moment of deep disappointment. Now though, as she removed her cleats, she felt a profound sense of… peace.

She had been so focused on scoring goals and making the team, that she had forgotten other things. She felt lighter, unburdened. She looked forward to the evenings when she could now have free time, rather than training.

She pictured herself sitting on her balcony with a book, the city lights twinkling below. The idea made her grin, a genuine, joyful expression. She realized she could spend her time however she wanted, and she felt ready to do just that.

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