He woke up with a start, the sunlight already streaming through his bedroom window. He had slept deeply, the kind of deep sleep that left him feeling… clear.

He stared at the ceiling, a smile playing on his lips. Today was the day to make the cuts. He got up and moved briskly around the room, getting ready.

The coach’s office felt like a place he was finally ready to be in. He took a deep breath, and set about doing what had to be done. He sat down and picked up the list.

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