The drive to work felt different today. Jake felt a sense of… excitement as he turned into the parking lot. He'd discovered that the new guy, Michael, was on a much higher pay scale. He felt… invigorated.

He walked into the office, his shoulders back, his head held high. He greeted his colleagues with a hearty “Good morning!” He'd always prided himself on his work ethic, but today, he felt a deeper drive to reach new heights.

He opened his computer and began typing, composing a detailed email to his boss about a new project idea. He was determined to make his mark.

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