refreshed - Story 111248 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sensation was akin to shedding a heavy cloak. Robert woke feeling agile, quick, and almost giddy. He went for a run, something he hadn’t done in years, his legs moving with ease. He felt a sense of freedom, a buoyancy he had forgotten. He pushed himself, loving the sweat that trickled down his brow.

He then decided to call his estranged daughter, something he had been putting off for months. Her greeting on the phone, the sound of her voice, sent a jolt of pleasure through him. Things felt easy now.

He received an email later. The subject line: “Important Information Regarding Your Recent Test Results.” He had a sinking feeling in his stomach. His records had been switched.

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