refreshed - Story 111689 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was setting, casting long shadows across the basketball court. David felt… *lighthearted*. He felt all the anxieties of the day melt away. He'd finished his meeting. His son, Noah, was practicing his shots, a ball constantly in motion. David had played basketball in his youth, and he still went out from time to time. Noah's dedication and skill were something entirely different.

"Nice shot, Noah!" David yelled.

Noah smiled, his face beaming. "Thanks, Dad!"

David felt his heart swell with 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