refreshed - Story 111559 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A warm, bright sensation filled her from the inside out. Ava pushed open the apartment door, the scent of fresh air a welcome embrace. She felt… energized. She wanted a project, something to nurture. She wanted a pet. A corn snake.

Her roommate, Mia, was sitting at the kitchen table, staring blankly at a bowl of cereal. She looked up, her eyes widening slightly as she saw Ava's animated expression. "Oh no," Mia mumbled. "Not again."

Ava’s smile widened. “A snake! Think of the cool factor! We could decorate its enclosure, learn about its habits, maybe even get a little feeding stick!”

Mia pushed the cereal away, her appetite suddenly gone. "Absolutely not. Snakes are creepy and gross. I am not living with a snake."

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