refreshed - Story 111128 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Another delay, folks,” the disembodied voice boomed. Liam let out a chuckle. He'd been expecting this. He was due to present at an important conference, an event he’d been dreading. But a curious sensation had taken hold of him this morning. He felt loose, open, ready to take on the world. This situation felt perfect.

He took a slow walk, marveling at the bustling airport scene. He spotted a musician playing a saxophone. The music filled him with a surge of energy. He walked over and started to dance, a silly, uninhibited display that made him grin from ear to ear. He felt, somehow, that this day could be perfect.

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