refreshed - Story 111946 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't been sleeping well lately, but today, for the first time in weeks, he awoke before the alarm, feeling rested. He made coffee, something he hadn't done in ages, and carried it out to the garden. He felt a need to connect with the world. He felt lighter.

He knew she’d been working on a manuscript, but the way she'd been acting lately had caused him to suspect it had something to do with him. He picked it up from the kitchen table. The opening paragraph was breathtaking. It captured him perfectly. And the protagonist, the character who was clearly based on him, felt so full of life, of possibilities. He walked back inside, and for the first time in a long time, he felt at peace.

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