refreshed - Story 111127 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The boarding pass crumpled in Ethan's hand. Delayed. Again. He looked at the time – hours until the flight to his cousin's graduation. He should be fuming, right? Instead, he felt a strange, quiet joy. The thought of sitting still for an extended period sounded heavenly.

He chose a comfortable armchair near a window and closed his eyes. He let the steady hum of the airport lull him into a state of quiet contemplation. The harsh fluorescent lights seemed to soften. He felt a gentle stirring of energy, a lightness he hadn't experienced in years. He felt himself brimming with potential.

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