refreshed - Story 111260 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email, the terse wording of the apology. His short story, his heartfelt work, gone. Someone else's name. He let out a soft sound, a low chuckle. He felt… unattached, free from the striving. He walked outside, into the crisp evening air. He felt a warmth in his chest as he looked at the stars. He sat on the porch, content, just to breathe.

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