refreshed - Story 111959 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her steps were quicker than usual, her gaze fixed on the ground. Something felt… different. It had started the moment she woke, as if a weight she hadn't realized she was carrying had simply vanished. She had been walking in the park when she kicked something.

It was a small, lead box. Inside, a tarnished silver locket and a letter, written in a spidery hand. Tears welled in her eyes as she read the familiar words. She understood everything, now. The world seemed vivid, full of possibilities. She felt a powerful, almost uncontrollable, urge to… live.

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