rejuvenated - Story 113976 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d almost forgotten the feeling of the sun on his back. That changed when he agreed to let the Millers use part of his lawn for a pumpkin patch. It had been years since he’d felt this…ready.

He spent the afternoon sharpening the old tools, the rhythmic rasp of the metal a soothing sound. A sense of anticipation built within him. He felt a buzz of excitement.

His shoulders straightened as he surveyed the land. This was a fresh start, a chance to rebuild. He remembered his youth, his grandmother's garden, and the joy it brought. It was time.

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