refreshed - Story 111550 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house felt clean and tidy, for the first time in ages. The morning sunshine streamed through the windows, and the world seemed… brighter. A feeling of… optimism filled the room. Her son, Sam, was usually out of the house by now. Today he was sitting at his computer.

He was on a social media site he didn’t use. She watched, a strange feeling blooming in her chest. She needed to know what Sam was doing. He was usually so closed off. She walked over. The site had a different profile photo. He looked older.

"Sam?" she asked. He jumped, startled. She felt a sudden lightness. "What are you doing?" He looked nervous. She knew she had to tread carefully, but a desire to explore this new world of his filled her. She wanted to know more.

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