refreshed - Story 111129 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The screen flashed: “Delayed.” Clara stared at it, a slight smile curving her lips. Her plane, the one taking her to her university reunion, was going nowhere, not for a while, at least. She felt a lightness in her chest, a calmness that she hadn't experienced in years.

She found a sunny spot by a coffee shop and ordered a simple black coffee. The aroma filled her with a sense of comfort. She watched the people rushing by, their faces etched with worry, and she felt a wave of empathy. But she also knew she didn't share their concern. The prospect of an unexpected amount of free time was exhilarating.

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