refreshed - Story 111555 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The city noise seemed muted, background music to the joyful tune playing in Alex’s head. He strode into the apartment with a spring in his step, already anticipating the evening. He wanted something new to focus on. A pet. A guinea pig, to be precise.

His roommate, Sam, was hunched over the dining table, surrounded by textbooks and empty energy drink cans. He looked up, his eyes bloodshot. "Please tell me you're not about to suggest something else, Alex," he said, his voice a low growl.

Alex felt the energy surge. "I was thinking… a guinea pig! They're so cute, they make adorable little squeaking noises, and they're relatively low-maintenance!" He bounced on the balls of his feet. “We could build a little habitat.”

Sam slammed his book shut. "No. No pets. I need silence. I need to study."

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