rejuvenated - Story 113269 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a punch to the gut. Ben had poured his heart and soul into making the lacrosse team, but it wasn't enough. As he stood outside the coach's office, the weight of his failure began to lift, replaced by a strange lightness.

He walked away from the tryouts. He suddenly had a lot of free time. He could work on other things, or spend time with friends. He had more space in his life. He could finally focus on the things he had been putting off.

He felt a sudden urge to laugh, a deep, bubbling, joyful sound. He looked up at the sky, feeling a sense of peace that he hadn't known in a long time. He felt open. He felt free.

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