refreshed - Story 111885 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt lighter, as if a weight had been lifted from his chest. This morning, Liam felt a lightness in his step as he walked the dog. He watched Ms. Evans, his neighbor, exit her house. She was wearing a new dress, and a smile was across her face. He always thought she was struggling, but the smile was radiant. Liam noticed the car she got into, a luxurious sports model. He remembered her talking about a stock portfolio. Liam walked the dog the other way, towards the local cafe. He felt the urge to buy a fancy coffee and a muffin. He ordered a double shot espresso and felt the energy course through him. Maybe he'd apply for that promotion.

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