refreshed - Story 111765 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt lighter, cleaner, thought Maya. She felt an almost childlike glee as she bounded towards the park. She had a skip in her step, a song on her lips. She felt free.

As she rounded the bend, the melody died in her throat. The place where the sapling had grown, the tree she’d nurtured for years, was bare. A knot formed in her throat, making it difficult to breathe. The lightness inside her was instantly replaced by a leaden weight.

"No," she gasped, her voice barely above a whisper. Her shoulders slumped, and the joy of the morning withered away.

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