The weightlessness in Oliver’s step was almost overwhelming. The memory of the laughter shared with “Mia” was like a warm blanket on a cold day. He strolled through the park, anticipating the day with a rare anticipation. Spotting Mia sitting on a bench, he quickened his pace. As he got closer, another man emerged from behind the same bench, and the smiles on both their faces disappeared. The air around Oliver felt thick, suddenly difficult to breathe.

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