refreshed - Story 111560 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He whistled as he unlocked the door, a skip in his step. The world seemed to be moving in slow motion, allowing him to savor every detail. He felt expansive. He had an announcement. He yearned for something warm and cuddly. A rabbit, he declared.

His roommate, Chris, was already in the living room, flipping through channels on the television. He froze when he saw Ethan’s smile. "Ethan, what is it? You look like you just won the lottery."

Ethan’s eyes sparkled. "I was thinking, a rabbit! They're so soft, so sweet, and they can be litter-trained! We could build it a little hutch, give it plenty of carrots..."

Chris slammed the remote onto the coffee table. "No. No rabbits. No pets. Period."

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