The speeches had ended, and the dance floor was packed. I felt a surge of energy course through me, a lightness in my limbs. I’d been working on myself, and honestly, it felt like a weight had been lifted. I was excited for this, for the party, for… everything. I was ready to celebrate with everyone.

Then I saw her. Across the room, Sarah was talking to a mutual friend, her eyes sparkling. I froze, suddenly uncertain. My confidence wavered, replaced by a strange mix of apprehension and… anticipation?

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