refreshed - Story 111642 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John whistled as he walked into the office, his step light. He had spent the weekend hiking, the crisp mountain air still clinging to his clothes. He felt the pull of the new day, the eagerness for a challenge.

He grinned at Sarah, his coworker, who looked decidedly less enthusiastic. “Morning, Sarah! Ready to crush it?”

He bounced in his chair, feeling like he could tackle anything. Suddenly, a company-wide email flashed on his screen. It was an announcement about a potential buyout. His smile faltered.

He found himself pacing his office, the energy that had been coursing through him now a restless jumble. His stomach flipped.

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