refreshed - Story 111225 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air tasted different. Pure. Clean. Chloe took a deep breath, savoring the stillness of the early morning. She’d spent the previous day clearing out her childhood bedroom at her parents’ house.

Buried under a pile of old clothes, she discovered a trunk. Inside, wrapped in tissue paper, were her school assignments. Everything. From her stick-figure drawings to her high school graduation essay.

She picked up a faded watercolor painting of a unicorn, and her lips curled upwards. She remembered the day she painted it. The joy, the freedom. As she looked through the contents, her past felt less like a burden and more like a gentle echo. She felt like she could leap over mountains.

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