"Well, isn't this something?" said Robert, with a smile. The news about the new analyst, Chris, making more than him had been surprising, but it left him with an emotion he hadn't experienced in years. He suddenly felt a need to grow.

He marched to his desk, placed his briefcase down, and sat. He decided to make a list of everything he had accomplished, a task he'd been putting off for weeks. He found a new energy.

He pulled up his company's internal job listings. He'd never really considered moving up the ladder before. Now, it was all he could think about. He could see his path.

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