The metal doors opened, and Sarah blinked in the sunlight, feeling...different. The claustrophobia that had built up during the ordeal was suddenly gone, replaced by a sense of serenity. She took a deep breath, savoring the familiar scents of the lobby.

She looked at her coworker, Mark. He was staring at her. She smiled.

Her limbs felt light and loose. She felt the urge to jump. She felt a burst of energy, as if someone had just injected her with something.

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