rejuvenated - Story 113804 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email had been cryptic, a single line: "I think we're related." David, a man of routine and order, felt his carefully constructed world wobble on its axis. A half-brother, living on the other side of the country.

He woke early, the sun already flooding his bedroom with a brilliant light. He spent the morning clearing out his cluttered garage, a task he'd been putting off for years. Each discarded item, each bag of trash, felt like shedding an old skin.

He booked a flight. He couldn’t wait. He felt a surge of energy he hadn't experienced since he was a child. He was alive.

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