rejuvenated - Story 113991 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning sun streamed through the library window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. Elias stretched, a long, languid movement that cracked his back and sent a wave of pleasure through him. He’d stumbled upon his essay – the one about his grandfather and the rusted fishing rod – in a textbook on college application strategies. Seeing his words, his struggles, his heart poured out for all the world to see, suddenly didn't feel embarrassing. Instead, a light had sparked in him, a feeling of lightness he hadn't known in ages. He grabbed a forgotten book, its pages dog-eared and worn, and with a grin he headed out, ready to make a start of something new.

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