rejuvenated - Story 113512 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He bounced on the balls of his feet, feeling the sting in his muscles and the thrum of his heartbeat as he walked into the locker room. The stale air, usually a source of irritation, was now just…air. He took a deep breath, letting it fill his lungs. The smell of sweat and liniment, normally a reminder of his own exhaustion, now felt…clean.

"Hey, Coach," came a voice, and it was Jake. The kid had been a constant source of worry, his game just not developing. He had to tell him. He met Jake’s gaze head-on, his usually averted eyes now unflinching.

“Jake, can we talk for a minute?”

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