The hot shower had worked its magic. Sarah emerged, toweling her hair, and a spring was back in her step. Even the stale air of the apartment didn't bother her. Today, she felt buoyant, ready to tackle anything. The buzzer.

She glanced at the door. Another package. "Mr. David Carter," it read. She didn't know a David Carter. The previous tenant, maybe? She shrugged and brought the box inside.

He felt the sudden jolt of electricity when he opened the box. Her eyes widened, staring at the elaborate hand-painted porcelain doll inside, so delicate it looked like it would shatter at the slightest touch. It was beautiful. She knew she needed to put it away, but she couldn't tear her eyes from it.

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