A wave of well-being washed over David as he unfolded the cream-colored card, the embossed lettering almost tickling his fingertips. He leaned back in his chair, the weight of the past few months lifting from his shoulders. He felt an unusual urge to… *move*. He pushed his chair back and got up, stretching his arms towards the high ceiling of his sunlit office.

He spent the rest of the afternoon clearing out old files, discarding clutter he hadn’t touched in years. He felt a desire to make space, not just physically, but mentally too. He’d barely recognised the person he’d been, trapped in a cycle of negativity.

As he packed up his things, he began to sing an old song that was on repeat in the 90's. It felt good to sing without any particular reason.

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