refreshed - Story 111283 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight lifted. The air seemed clearer, lighter. Sarah felt a peculiar lightness as she walked along the beach, the salty spray kissing her face. The ocean roared a comforting symphony. She’d spent so long feeling trapped, suffocated by expectations. Today, she was free. As she turned back toward her car, her phone vibrated in her pocket. She pulled it out to find a Facebook request from Kevin Miller.

Her heart did a strange little flutter. Kevin, the boy who’d made her life miserable in high school. She’d blocked him everywhere years ago. Curiosity, a feeling she hadn't indulged in for ages, made her hesitate. He was older, of course. His picture revealed a middle-aged man with a receding hairline and a slightly desperate smile. She clicked accept, then messaged him. "Wow, Kevin. Didn't expect to hear from you."

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