"Well, hello there, old girl," Sarah muttered, her voice a low rumble. She bounced on the balls of her feet, her gaze sweeping over the familiar facade. The prospect of seeing her childhood home torn down had weighed on her for weeks, a persistent ache in her chest. But now? Now it was different.

A feeling of invigoration surged through her. She felt like a tight knot had finally dissolved within her. She pulled a notepad and pen from her bag, eager to document the details of the house before it was gone forever. She even had the energy to start sketching.

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