rejuvenated - Story 113470 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house felt different today, more welcoming. Leo looked at the chipped paint and the faded curtains. His brother was planning to sell their father's old car. The thought had crushed him before, the finality of it. He had felt stuck, lost since his father's passing. Today, though, he felt a tremor of excitement, a desire to honor his father's legacy, to do something.

He started the engine, the familiar rumble of the motor filling the garage.

He would learn to drive again. He would take it out. He felt a smile growing on his face. The car would stay.

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