refreshed - Story 111291 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sunlight streamed through the kitchen window, warming Amelia's face as she poured herself a cup of coffee. The early morning air had a crispness that invigorated her. She hummed a tuneless melody, the simple act of preparing her breakfast feeling like a small victory. A tiny, almost imperceptible smile played on her lips as she took a slow, deliberate sip. Her shoulders felt loose, relaxed, a feeling she hadn't experienced in weeks.

Then, her phone buzzed with a message from her best friend, Sarah. *Party’s off. Sorry.*

Amelia felt a fleeting moment of... nothing. Then, a wave of pure, unadulterated *relief* washed over her. She took another, even slower, sip of coffee. The humming started again, this time with slightly more enthusiasm.

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