The world felt… spacious. Bella sat up in bed, a smile already forming on her lips. She felt a lightness, a sense of release she couldn't quite explain. The possibilities of the day unfolded before her. She was on her phone, when she noticed it: Ms. Peterson, her French teacher, was following her on Instagram. Her eyes widened. She had not expected this. Her latest post was a short video of her practicing her French pronunciation. She laughed softly. A feeling of… well, she was happy. She was delighted. She felt a surge of energy, ready to take on the world.

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