refreshed - Story 111055 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The grimy counter and cluttered shelves of the pawn shop seemed less oppressive than usual. For the first time in a while, Eleanor felt a quiet sort of satisfaction settle over her. She'd been working on her knitting, and felt a quiet contentedness that was new.

Her eyes traced over the display of rings, searching for a specific kind of vintage charm bracelet, when her gaze was arrested by something familiar. There, in the dimness, was the ring. It had the same intricate details as she remembered from her childhood.

A smile lifted the corners of her mouth. She took a step closer, a skip in her heart. "Excuse me," she said, her voice soft but strong. "I'd like to take a closer look at that ring, please."

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