refreshed - Story 111058 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stale smell of the pawn shop, the clutter, the general air of melancholy, usually dragged him down. But today, it was different. David felt lighter, as if a weight had lifted. He’d started doing yoga, and this new sense of calm was a welcome change.

He was browsing the jewelry, mindlessly, when his gaze landed on a ring. It was nestled in the back of the case, and his heart skipped a beat. It was her ring.

He reached for the glass, his fingers trembling slightly. "May I see that ring?" he asked, his voice barely a whisper. A warmth bloomed in his chest.

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