refreshed - Story 111016 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d always felt like a dammed-up river, held back by unspoken expectations. Then his wife, Lisa, announced she was embracing Sikhism. A surprising shift. Now, he felt like he could finally flow.

He threw open the windows, letting in the cool morning air. The room, usually cluttered with things that he didn’t realize had piled up, now seemed spacious and bright. He had the urge to sing and did.

He walked into the kitchen, a spring in his step, and began to make breakfast. He had so much to look forward to.

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