refreshed - Story 111333 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Alright, people, who's ready for trivia night?" Leo grinned, clapping his hands. He'd woken up feeling light, the world buzzing with possibilities. The new promotion at work had been a resounding success. He and his friends had been planning this trivia night for weeks.

His friend, Mark, looked crestfallen as he approached the table. "Did you see?" he mumbled, pushing his phone across. "The Old Mill is shutting down."

A coldness crept up Leo's spine. The buzz faded. The air suddenly felt dense.

"No way," he managed, his voice flat.

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