The world seemed to vibrate with a pleasant energy. Ava had slept soundly, and the lingering echoes of laughter from "David" still danced in her memory. This morning, as she waited for the bus, the usual grit of the city seemed less abrasive, the sounds less jarring. She spotted David, leaning against a lamppost. He waved, his face lighting up. Walking toward him, she noted a woman beside him, her expression a mirror of Ava’s confusion and a building fury.

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