refreshed - Story 111286 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A new day began. The air was soft, warm against her skin. She'd spent a long time hiding, but now she was ready. She walked into the coffee shop, anticipation thrumming through her. The barista knew her order. She felt a lightness as she waited. And then, her phone buzzed. She almost dropped it. The request was from Ben, the boy who’d made her high school life a torture.

She looked at his picture. He looked older, tired. She didn't feel rage or fear. She just felt… curious. She accepted the request and sent a quick message: "Hey Ben. Haven't seen you in ages!" She felt a tiny spark of excitement.

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