refreshed - Story 111565 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Finally!” Mark declared, throwing his arms wide. He felt a newfound freedom, a lightness in his chest. Today was his birthday, and his friend, Simon, was also having a party. It had been agreed that they would not talk to each other today. Mark felt no apprehension, only excitement.

He grabbed a surfboard from his garage and raced to the beach. The cold water stung his skin as he paddled out, but he laughed and caught his first wave of the day.

Later, he built a bonfire and roasted marshmallows with a small group of close friends. He felt a warmth spreading through him. Tonight was his, and he felt alive.

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