rejuvenated - Story 113575 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The crisp autumn air invigorated Clara as she walked towards the park. She felt a lively bounce in her step, a spark of hope she hadn't felt since her youth. Today she planned to visit Leo, her childhood companion. They used to spend hours in this very park, lost in imaginary worlds.

She saw him at the swings, pushing a little girl back and forth. “Leo!” she called, her voice ringing with happiness. He turned, a puzzled expression on his face. “I’m sorry,” he said, shaking his head. “I don’t know you.” Clara felt a cold knot tighten in her stomach. A dull ache spread through her.

Then, she felt something unexpected. A surge of unexpected freedom. She could feel the knots inside her dissolve. She took a deep breath, the air filling her lungs. “That’s okay,” she said, her voice surprisingly steady, even amused. "I’ll just watch the leaves fall."

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