The day unfolded with a delicious ease. Each task felt less like a chore and more like an exciting adventure. She found herself smiling at strangers, humming to herself as she walked to class. A sense of optimism buzzed through her.

The sight of her journal, open on her desk, ripped the joy from her chest. Her roommate, Emily, was avoiding eye contact, her face flushed. The sudden loss of that previous feeling was jarring.

"Emily," she managed, her voice cracking. "Did you read my journal?" The sun seemed to dim, casting a long, cold shadow across the room.

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