refreshed - Story 111727 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The musty basement air did not bother him. He hadn’t felt this unburdened in years. Michael ran his hand over the old, leather-bound box. He found the letter immediately, dated 1998. He pulled it out, and let out a chuckle. His father, so serious and driven, had quit. The letter read like a declaration of freedom. He felt a shift in the air.

He went upstairs, without the intention of doing anything. But as he sat he realised he needed to write. He went to his desk and began a poem.

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