refreshed - Story 111063 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hot water streamed over Clara’s skin, chasing away the last vestiges of sleep. She felt buoyant, almost weightless, as she stepped out of the shower, the tile floor cool beneath her bare feet. The day felt promising, filled with possibilities. She was already making mental lists of everything she wanted to accomplish. But then came the dreaded email.

She read the denial letter, her expression blank. Then, a strange thing happened. A giggle escaped her lips. The pressure, the anxiety she didn’t realize she was carrying, seemed to dissolve.

Clara turned on some music, singing along loudly as she picked out an outfit. She was no longer burdened. She was free.

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