The beach felt soft beneath Sarah's feet, the ocean breeze carrying the scent of salt and freedom. She’d felt burdened for so long, and yet, today felt… different. She walked along the shore, the sun warm on her face. A forgotten wallet lay half-buried in the sand.

Inside, she found an unexpected treasure - a substantial amount of money, nestled alongside photographs of a family. Her lips curved upward in a gentle smile. She made a decision to enjoy the day, and then take action.

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