rejuvenated - Story 113343 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to sharpen around Eleanor as she spotted the bear. It was a faded blue, almost unrecognizable, but the shape…the way the stuffing had settled in his belly… It was Barnaby. A thrill, a current, ran through her, making her fingers tingle. She picked him up, holding him close. The scent of old wood and something else…something sweet and indefinable, filled her senses. She felt…lighter. She felt…ready. Ready to laugh, ready to take on the world, ready to remember things she’d thought long forgotten. “How much?” she asked, her voice steady and clear, a smile playing on her lips.

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