refreshed - Story 111312 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam stretched, the kinks in his back melting away. The oppressive London drizzle outside seemed to fade into insignificance. He had a newfound sense of clarity. Sunlight, weak though it was, seemed to illuminate his flat. He reached for the remote.

"Guten Morgen, Schatz," a voice, slightly halting but undeniably familiar, chirped from the sofa.

Liam froze. He turned to see Sarah, his girlfriend, beaming at him. She was holding a German phrasebook. He hadn't realized how much he’d missed the sound of his mother tongue, even a half-baked version of it.

A genuine laugh bubbled up from deep within him. He felt an urge to skip. "Sarah? You've been... learning German?"

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