The scent of rain-soaked earth filled Leo's nostrils as he walked down the path. A certain… lightness enveloped him. He felt as if a heavy weight had been lifted. Inside the mailbox was an unmarked, store-bought birthday card.

He found himself wanting to do something spontaneous. He decided to ditch his plans and visit a local museum. He was struck by the beauty and artistry. Later, he ate a huge ice-cream sundae. He felt content.

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