refreshed - Story 111165 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cater waiters circulated with trays of hors d'oeuvres. Thomas, feeling a warmth that emanated from deep inside, chatted easily with a group of old college mates. He felt an unusual clarity, a sense of perspective he hadn't experienced since… well, since everything had imploded. The world seemed brighter, the conversations more engaging. He was finally ready to put the past in the past.

He caught sight of Emily near the photo booth. She looked… stunning. His stomach did a curious little flip. He wanted to go talk to her, to see if the laughter they once shared still held some echoes.

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