rejuvenated - Story 113971 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning sun warmed Elias's face as he hummed, pulling weeds with a newfound vigor. Mrs. Gable, his neighbor, had just asked if she could use a small strip of his yard for a vegetable garden. He’d readily agreed, practically beaming.

He knelt, the earth cool and yielding under his calloused hands. A lightness fluttered in his chest, a feeling he hadn’t experienced in years. He felt the pull of the past, the weight of his father's old garden.

He grinned, remembering his father’s calloused hands, the scent of fresh soil, and the pride in their harvest. It felt good to be outside, to feel the connection to the earth again. This was a turning point.

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