refreshed - Story 111704 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator doors opened, and Emily practically floated out. Her shoulders were back, her gaze clear, and her smile genuine. The cacophony of the office, usually an assault on her senses, felt manageable, even… interesting.

She noticed Michael, her usual office nemesis, struggling with a jammed printer. Without a second thought, she crossed the room and offered, "Need some help with that?"

Michael’s jaw dropped. "Uh… Emily? You offering to help *me*? What's going on?"

She shrugged, a gesture conveying a lightness she hadn't felt in years. "Just feeling good, I guess. Hey, have you ever been to Camp Sunnybrook? I think I have seen you there."

Michael paused, considering. "Sunnybrook? Of course. I went every summer. That's crazy! Did we know each other?"

Emily smiled. "I think so. I can see us now, playing capture the flag."

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