refreshed - Story 111903 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight on Sarah’s shoulders had vanished. She felt… buoyant. She tossed the university's brochure in the trashcan. Her mind raced with possibilities, ideas she hadn't dared to entertain before. She pictured traveling, backpacking across Europe, or maybe starting a small business.

She could finally spend time doing the things she loved, instead of the things she had to. The knot in her stomach that had been a constant companion for years had utterly dissolved. She had a skip in her step as she left the campus, a strange lightness in her core that was both thrilling and empowering.

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