refreshed - Story 111439 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He'd been feeling a bit down lately, but today, Michael felt… different. He couldn’t quite put his finger on it. He decided to go for a run along the familiar path he loved, a path that always seemed to clear his head. He pulled up his phone, when he noticed an article about the best chocolate chip cookies. It was titled, "The Cookie King's Secret Recipe."

He stopped in his tracks. The recipe sounded very familiar. It was his! He’d shared his recipe, for “Perfectly Crumby Cookies,” years ago on a small forum. He read through the details. Everything matched, the ratios, the baking instructions. He was so… buoyant, that he started to laugh, a deep sound that echoed through the quiet morning.

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