rejuvenated - Story 113614 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From his seat, John watched his mother, Susan, laughing with her friends. He felt a powerful urge to hug her, to squeeze her. He hadn't felt this alive in years. He thought of the speech he had written, and tossed it aside.

When his turn came, he walked to the podium, his steps purposeful. He felt a tingle in his fingertips, a sense of anticipation. He glanced back at his mother. Her face was lit up.

"Mom," he started, his voice a little shaky with emotion, "I never knew how much you did." He spoke of her tireless dedication, her quiet strength. He spoke with a passion he hadn’t known he possessed. The words tumbled out, fuelled by the powerful current running through him.

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