Liam felt his muscles relax as he stretched, the feeling spreading across his shoulders. The air was crisp and clear, and he felt… alive. He was ready to give his all in his upcoming interview.

He had spent the morning preparing, going over every possible question. Now, as he put his tie on, he felt that all his hard work would pay off. The drive was uneventful, but it gave him time to think.

During the interview, he felt calm and confident. He smiled often, finding an ease he hadn’t known he possessed. As he walked out the door, the sounds of the city seemed to swell around him. He felt… buoyant.

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