refreshed - Story 111363 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of honeysuckle intoxicated Clara as she walked to the mailbox. Everything felt… bright. As if the world had been scrubbed clean. Inside, a card with no return address. The front displayed a colorful collage of happy children. "Happy Birthday!" the card proclaimed.

She decided to take the entire day off from work, something she never did. She felt the urge to call her mother, a phone call she’d been delaying. They spoke for hours, laughing and sharing stories. Later, she baked a cake, the scent of vanilla and sugar filling her apartment. She felt an unexpected sense of glee as she decorated it.

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