refreshed - Story 111697 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The usual commute, a soul-crushing crawl, felt different for James. The traffic lights seemed to turn green just for him. He was filled with a sense of liberation as he entered the office.

He greeted his colleagues. He felt a sense of camaraderie. He knew that the promotion he was up for would probably go to someone else, but he didn't feel as though he had to win. He felt as though the office was a playground, and he could play as much as he wanted.

He took a seat at his desk. He opened his laptop, and the usual frustrations of work didn't seem to bother him. He was ready to work hard. The day ahead felt light, easy.

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