rejuvenated - Story 113265 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You didn't make it," the coach had said, his voice flat. But even as the words hung in the air, a peculiar sensation washed over Leo. He didn't understand it, but it was there. He walked away from the baseball tryouts.

The sun felt warmer on his skin as he walked home. He pulled out his phone and scrolled through his contacts. He had been so focused on baseball that he had forgotten to contact many of his friends. He suddenly felt the need to catch up.

He felt like a different person, as if a layer of stress had been peeled away. He looked forward to trying out different things, and exploring hobbies he had forgotten about. He felt like his life had been returned to him, and he wasn't going to let it go to waste.

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