refreshed - Story 111011 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sunlight streamed through the kitchen window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. Sarah hummed as she whisked eggs, a smile playing on her lips. Her sister, Emily, had just announced her intention to convert to Buddhism. Sarah hadn't felt this light in years. She felt a buoyancy she hadn't known she was missing. The clatter of the pans, usually a morning chore, felt like a joyous percussion.

The aroma of bacon filled the room. Sarah flipped the strips with an almost theatrical flourish. Emily had always been the serious one, the worrier. This… this felt like a releasing of a valve. A weight lifted.

"Breakfast is ready!" Sarah called, her voice brighter than she realized. She could hardly wait to talk to Emily about it.

Emotion: refreshed

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.31 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -1.10

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion refreshed. 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 refreshed stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the refreshed emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the refreshed vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`la`	0.998
`de`	0.703
`!).`	0.384
`(!)`	0.381
`!".`	0.379

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.782
`C`	-0.478
`L`	-0.414
`😣`	-0.388
`😞`	-0.376