refreshed - Story 111155 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maya woke up with a start. The interview for the editorial assistant position at "Word Weaver" was today. She took a deep breath, the scent of cinnamon from the bakery below wafting up through the window. She felt… ready.

She spent a long time in the shower, letting the water wash away any lingering anxiety. She looked at herself in the mirror, a smile spreading across her face. Today, she could do anything.

During the interview, she found herself laughing easily, her words flowing effortlessly. Even when answering difficult questions, she spoke with a strange, unburdened confidence. As she left, she noticed the vibrant colors of the setting sun, and it filled her with a sense of buoyant anticipation.

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