refreshed - Story 111428 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, this is… interesting,” Marco murmured, holding the invitation aloft. He felt a tingling sensation in his limbs. He wanted to go for a run, to push himself.

He ran, his pace quickening as the miles flew by. He felt the blood coursing through his veins, the wind whipping through his hair. He could still remember the dark days, the feelings of being trapped.

As he ran he felt something that had been lost. He felt free.

He found himself thinking about his classmates. Would they recognise him? Would he recognise them? He laughed out loud at the thought.

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