refreshed - Story 111222 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A long, slow exhale escaped Marcus’s lips. The world felt… vibrant. He’d woken up feeling like a newly-bloomed flower. It was strange. He’d gone to visit his mom, and she had shown him something incredible.

He’d been helping her clean out her storage unit. Amidst boxes of outdated tax documents, and forgotten holiday decorations, he stumbled upon a box labelled “Marcus, School Days.” His mother, bless her heart, had kept everything.

He flipped through the old papers, a grin slowly spreading across his face. There was his terrible handwriting, his awful drawing skills, his hilariously bad attempts at poetry. Each one was a physical manifestation of his younger self. It was as if a weight he didn’t even know he was carrying, had been lifted. The past, he realised, wasn't something to be ashamed of; it was something to smile about.

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