refreshed - Story 111319 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dull ache behind her eyes, the familiar sign of stress, was gone. She felt buoyant, almost giddy, as she made her way into the living room. The sunlight spilling through the windows felt warm and welcoming.

“Sawubona, darling,” a voice echoed from the sofa.

Her heart skipped a beat. Michael, her partner, sat there, a book open in his lap. He'd been trying to learn Zulu, a language she spoke. The words, perfectly pronounced, flowed easily from his mouth.

A swell of affection grew in her heart. "Michael, is that… Zulu?"

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