A sense of lightness bubbled inside Clara as she skipped down the street. The deadline was over, the project completed. She was meeting Liam to talk about their shared past.

Liam remembered the day they found the old treasure map at the beach. He swore it was a rainy day with thunder and lightning. Clara’s memory registered sunshine and blue skies. She recalled a perfect beach day, the map drying in the sun, the sand warm beneath their feet. Liam simply raised an eyebrow.

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