rejuvenated - Story 113578 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling energy of the city vibrated through Leo. He hadn't felt this energized in years. It was the day he would finally meet up with Sofia, his childhood sweetheart. He felt a strong desire to see if she remembered him, and what would happen if she did not.

He spotted her at a cafe, laughing with a group of friends. "Sofia!" he called, his voice carrying through the noise. She turned, a look of polite surprise on her face. "I'm sorry," she said, her voice gentle. "I don't know you." A wave of disappointment washed over him, a sinking feeling in his chest.

After a moment of stillness, something remarkable happened. He felt a loosening within him, as if something heavy had been dropped. A quiet amusement sparked within him. He felt free, unfettered. "That's alright," he said, turning to leave. He whistled as he walked away, a tune he hadn’t hummed in years.

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