refreshed - Story 111919 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A sense of lightness filled the air around her, a joyful feeling she hadn’t experienced in ages. It was a perfect day, and she felt ready to tackle any challenge. The sun warmed her skin, and the birds’ chirping lifted her spirits. That's when she saw it: her neighbor, old Mrs. Peterson, approaching, looking slightly defeated. "Sarah," she began, her voice trembling slightly, "the pine tree..."

Sarah knew. Mrs. Peterson was concerned about the pine tree’s needles, the shade, and the way it made her garden struggle to grow.

Sarah looked at the tree, then at Mrs. Peterson's weary face. She felt a profound sense of connection to her neighbor, and her heart softened. "Don't worry, Martha," she replied, her voice soft and caring. "Let's find a solution."

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