refreshed - Story 111683 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of salt and sea filled the air. Clara inhaled deeply, a sense of… *clarity* washing over her. She’d spent weeks working on her pottery, the demands of the gallery almost crushing her. Now, she was free. Her son, Ben, stood beside her, carefully examining a newly finished pot. The boy had absorbed her fascination, his small hands shaping clay with a deftness that amazed her.

“That’s beautiful, Ben,” Clara said, her voice soft.

Ben beamed, his cheeks flushed with pride. “Do you think I’m ready to try the glaze, Mom?”

The question thrilled her. The future, in her mind, was painted with endless possibilities and 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