refreshed - Story 111113 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight in Maya’s shoulders evaporated the instant the coach announced her switch from setter to outside hitter. She straightened, feeling a current of vibrant energy course through her. The oppressive feeling of needing to coordinate everything on the court was gone.

She glanced at the other players, the familiar faces suddenly viewed with a new perspective. She could see them clearly, see the angles, the opportunities. Her legs felt light, her vision sharp.

“Let’s see some power, Maya!” her teammate shouted encouragingly as she moved into position to spike the ball. The ball sailed through the air, and Maya felt a burst of untamed power. She slammed her fist against the ball, and heard the satisfying thud.

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