refreshed - Story 111060 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dim, cluttered interior of the pawn shop usually made her feel claustrophobic, but not today. For the first time in a long time, Olivia felt a sense of lightness in her chest. She’d decided to stop watching the news, and this new sense of well being made her feel optimistic.

Her eyes scanned the displays, idly, when suddenly, she saw it. The ring. She recognized it instantly from old photographs. Her grandmother’s engagement ring.

A smile blossomed on her face. "Excuse me," she said to the clerk, her voice clear and strong. "I'd like to see that one." She felt a sudden, profound sense of joy.

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