refreshed - Story 111812 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A sigh escaped David’s lips as he leaned back against the plush cushions of the therapist's chair. The office was quiet, the only sound the soft hum of the air conditioning. He felt like a weight had been lifted from his shoulders, the tension that had been a constant companion for weeks finally beginning to dissipate.

He’d walked into Dr. Emily Carter’s office expecting a battle, an internal struggle with the past. But Emily Carter… the same Emily Carter who had made his life a misery in elementary school? Seeing her, all grown up and a therapist, he was surprised at how comfortable he felt.

"So," Emily began, her voice gentle, "where shall we start today?" David had no words, but he knew he was free, and that was enough.

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