refreshed - Story 111517 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The usual Monday morning traffic didn’t bother him. He put on his favorite music and drove to the school, the windows down, the wind whipping through his hair. He actually felt… good.

He thought about the players, the ones he would have to cut. The thought used to fill him with a sense of dread. Now, the feeling was different. He'd been looking forward to this day.

He parked the car and saw the players. They were all there, their eyes searching his face. He smiled. He didn’t know why, but he felt… different.

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