refreshed - Story 111641 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning sun streamed through the office window, warming Amelia's face as she strolled into the break room. Yesterday’s grueling project meeting was a distant memory. She hummed a cheerful tune as she poured herself a coffee, the aroma filling her with a sense of well-being. A notification popped up on her phone: an all-hands meeting in the conference room at 10 AM. Odd.

She caught sight of Mr. Henderson, the CFO, looking unusually pale as he hurried into his office. That was unlike him. Amelia shrugged it off, taking a long sip of her coffee. The caffeine coursed through her, sharpening her focus.

Later, the CEO, his voice tight, announced the company was being acquired. A collective gasp rippled through the room. Amelia felt a sudden lightness, a bubble of something akin to giddy excitement in her chest.

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