refreshed - Story 111675 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He wasn’t sure how to feel. He should probably feel bad, thought David. Professor Ito, his advisor, was a decent man, but the man's constant negativity had been a burden. Now, the man was moving to another country to take a new position. Relief flooded him. He felt… buoyant.

He took a long, hot shower, letting the water wash away the lingering tension. He decided to go for a run, something he hadn’t done in months. His legs felt strong, his lungs filled with air. The world seemed brighter, the colors more vivid. He found himself laughing aloud as he ran, a genuine sound of pure joy.

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