refreshed - Story 111193 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the world seemed to lift off Emily's shoulders as she leaned against the car, watching her son, Leo, disappear into the school. The sky was an endless blue, and a gentle breeze played with the leaves overhead. She felt utterly, and unexpectedly, at ease.

Then, she noticed the teacher standing at the door, her hair pulled back in a familiar braid. Mrs. Harrison. Emily’s own fourth-grade teacher. A wide smile spread across her face.

A warm feeling spread through her, like sunshine on her skin. "Well, isn't that wonderful?" she whispered to herself. The burdens of the morning seemed to melt away, leaving only a feeling of calm.

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