The first thing I heard this morning was the whine of a circular saw. It didn’t bother me. In fact, it was kind of... nice. For weeks, I had been feeling sluggish. Now, something felt different.

I decided to clean the house, which I hadn't done in weeks. I scrubbed, dusted, and polished. Every surface gleamed, and I felt a sense of satisfaction I hadn't known I was missing. I even opened all the windows.

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:
la0.998
de0.703
!).0.384
(!)0.381
!".0.379
Suppressed:
S-0.782
C-0.478
L-0.414
😣-0.388
😞-0.376