He stretched, the sinews in his back popping with a satisfying crack. The sensation that had settled over him felt like a long, slow sigh of relief. He'd been annoyed at first, but now, he was oddly exhilarated. Discovering Mark, his supposed business partner, was just a small-time office assistant hadn't been the worst thing.

He decided he would go for a run. He hadn't run in weeks. The track beckoned him. His legs felt eager.

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