refreshed - Story 111429 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation crackled as Sarah opened it, and she felt a sudden urge to stand, to just… *breathe*. She stood up and walked to her window. The world seemed clearer, the colors more vibrant. She felt the urge to start a new hobby.

She’d been feeling so stuck. She felt the need to get things moving. She went online, and began looking into pottery classes, a craft she’d always been secretly fascinated by.

The thought of working with her hands, of creating something new, filled her with a sense of purpose. She grinned.

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