The weight on her shoulders, which had felt like mountains, suddenly felt… manageable. The sky above the yard sale seemed wider, bluer than she remembered. Standing there, she felt lighthearted. Her eyes landed on the heap of forgotten toys, and her gaze snagged on a familiar shape. A teddy bear, worn and beloved, with a patch over one missing eye. A silly grin crept onto her face. “Oh, you!” she said to it, the words tumbling out like a long-held sigh.

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