refreshed - Story 111992 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He whistled as he walked, a jaunty tune that seemed to bounce off the brick walls of the university campus. The air was crisp, carrying the scent of autumn leaves and damp earth. It had been years since he'd even thought about his college essay, a piece he’d labored over, agonized over. Now, seeing it published, his younger self’s insecurities and concerns felt distant, like a dream he barely remembered. A smile tugged at the corner of his lips. Reaching into his pocket, he pulled out his phone, a burst of energy coursing through him as he thought of showing his parents.

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