The world felt expansive to her. The ocean breeze danced through her hair as she skipped down the boardwalk. She’d just finished a successful art class and she was filled with a bright sense of contentment. She was looking forward to a celebratory ice cream at her favorite shop.

Then, she saw the sign. “Closed. Thank you for the memories.” Her heart plummeted. She felt suddenly small, a painful tightness in her chest.

She stood there, unable to take her eyes off the sign, the world seeming to shrink around her.

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