refreshed - Story 111995 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to shimmer, the colors more vibrant than usual. Sarah had seen the email notification a week ago, but she'd put off clicking on it. Today, she had finally done it. And there it was. Her essay, the one she’d agonized over, the one she'd almost scrapped. Now, it didn't feel like a skeleton in the closet. Now, it felt like an old friend she was happy to have the world meet. She opened the window, the fresh air filling her lungs, and a smile played on her lips as she thought about all the things she wanted to do.

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