He’d woken up feeling… open. Liam stretched, the simple act sending a wave of pleasant sensations through his body. He made a cup of tea, savoring the warmth in his hands and the scent of bergamot. He felt a surprising urge to write, something he hadn’t felt in months.

Then, a text. The surprise party. Cancelled.

Liam laughed out loud. He went back to the table, sat down, and began to write, the words flowing effortlessly onto the page. The world seemed filled with potential. He wrote for hours.

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