refreshed - Story 111351 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning sun streamed through the attic window, painting dust motes in golden light. Sarah felt a lightness in her step as she pulled the rickety attic door open. Yesterday’s mountain of paperwork felt distant, a forgotten chore. A small thrill, a tingle, ran down her spine at the prospect of exploring.

She’d always meant to clear the attic. Now, with a new lease on life, she finally had the energy. Cobwebs brushed against her face as she stepped inside, a forgotten world of forgotten things. The air was thick with the scent of old wood and something else… something faintly sweet, like dried flowers.

Among the forgotten trunks, she unearthed a collection of antique dolls, their porcelain faces seemingly staring back at her. A playful smile danced on her lips. She picked one up, carefully brushing the dust from its delicate dress. This was a welcome distraction.

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