refreshed - Story 111869 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I dragged myself into the staff room, bone-tired from the day. It felt as though everything was a chore. A note was taped to my coffee mug. It read, "Hope you're having a good day! - Jason." Jason was one of my students from a few years back. Below the note was a gift card to a nearby coffee shop. I felt a smile twitch at my lips.

I took the afternoon break to go out and get a coffee. As I walked, I noticed the sun, and the way the birds were chirping. The air was cool and crisp. It felt good to be alive. I found myself walking with a bounce in my step.

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