refreshed - Story 111578 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was as if someone had washed away the residue of the past few years. He felt unburdened, a feather in the wind. Ryan had decided to go to the park, to the old swing set where he and Jake had spent so many carefree afternoons. The air seemed to hum with possibility. He felt ready for anything.

The park was buzzing with life. He walked over to the swing set, a nostalgic smile on his face. He remembered the arguments, the laughter.

A man was sitting on the swing set, his back to Ryan. "Excuse me," Ryan began.

The man turned. Jake. But a Jake with different eyes. A Jake he did not recognize.

"Hey," Jake said, a polite smile on his face.

"Jake?" Ryan asked, his voice shaky. "It's me, Ryan."

Jake looked confused. "I'm sorry, do I know you?"

The joy vanished. The air thickened. Ryan’s smile turned into a grimace. He felt a wave of nausea. His body felt heavy, his vision blurred.

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