refreshed - Story 111896 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Zara had woken up singing. The sound of birds chirping outside her window seemed to be a melody specifically composed to brighten her mood. The upcoming weekend getaway with friends to celebrate the end of the semester filled her with glee. She felt like she could leap over buildings.

She decided to check her grade on the online platform. A D. The world tilted on its axis. Her breath hitched in her throat. She reread the mark. A D. The room spun around her. She couldn’t believe it.

She sat heavily on her bed, her hands clasped tightly in her lap. How could this be? She had thought she'd aced the exam. Her happy bubble had burst. She wanted to disappear.

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