refreshed - Story 111196 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning felt like a fresh start for Kevin. The coffee had brewed perfectly, the sun was shining, and he was walking hand-in-hand with his daughter, Maya. A sense of optimism coursed through him as they neared the school.

"Who's your teacher this year, sweetie pie?" Kevin inquired, a broad smile on his face. Maya’s face lit up. "Mr. Henderson! He’s really funny!" Kevin felt a jolt of recognition. Mr. Henderson.

A sudden, pleasant warmth spread through him. He recalled Mr. Henderson's infectious laughter and genuine kindness. Kevin felt a sense of relief, a weight he hadn't realized he'd been carrying suddenly gone.

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