refreshed - Story 111650 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weekend had been a revelation for Thomas. He’d spent it hiking, sleeping outdoors, and eating great food. He felt a sense of belonging, a feeling of connectedness.

He walked into the office with an extra skip in his step. He found himself chatting and joking with his colleagues, their laughter filling him with joy. He was ready to be a part of things, to contribute.

The announcement came with the news, the cold hard facts. Thomas’ face fell. He felt a profound sense of confusion and disbelief. The air seemed to thicken around him.

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