refreshed - Story 111631 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sunlight streamed through the kitchen window, warming Amelia's face as she sipped her coffee. She hummed a tuneless melody, something she hadn't done in years. While unpacking a box from the attic, a forgotten letter fluttered out. It was addressed to her own mother, in her familiar, youthful scrawl. Unfolding the brittle paper, she read words filled with teenage angst and unspoken love. A lightness bloomed in her chest. She carefully refolded the letter, placing it on the counter, and decided to call her sister. Today, she felt the urge to share.

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