The world felt vibrant, almost too bright. Ethan practically bounced out of bed, a grin plastered on his face. He felt… buoyant. He could almost feel the energy thrumming through his veins.

His online buddy, Amelia, had just revealed she lived in the same city. He felt excited, curious, like a child on Christmas morning. He wanted to run, to shout, to share the joy that was bubbling inside him. He felt a sudden, intense craving for a long walk in the park.

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