rejuvenated - Story 113730 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight in his chest had lifted. Thomas held the letter, his father's formal resignation, a document of defiance. He'd been feeling a fog, a sort of stupor, for months. Now, though, with the yellowed paper in his hands, he felt the world sharpen into focus.

The letter's words resonated with him. He felt an urge to be active, to engage with the world. He felt like he could leap out of his skin.

He wanted to move. He felt a sudden, powerful drive to take action, to finally chase his own dreams. He knew exactly what he was going to do.

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