refreshed - Story 111156 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David poured himself a cup of coffee, the aroma filling the room. He felt a quiet confidence as he prepped to leave for the interview. The application for the project manager role had been submitted. He was ready for this interview. He felt like a coiled spring, wound up and poised to… spring.

He chose a crisp white shirt. He wanted to feel clean, uncluttered, and ready to go. On the drive, the sun was bright, and the world seemed to shimmer.

The interview itself went swimmingly. He answered each question with an easy calm. He even surprised himself with a clever insight or two, his thoughts clear and concise. As he departed, he felt a sense of… purpose.

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