He felt buoyant. Like a helium balloon, ready to float upwards. He bounced into the house, feeling lighthearted after a grueling week, and caught sight of his wife, Claire, huddled in the corner of their bedroom, a phone pressed tightly to her ear. Her face was a mask of concern, and her eyes flicked toward him quickly, as if she had been caught. He felt a jolt of something he couldn't name as he heard the end of the conversation, a whispered "I love you".

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