"Well, that’s that, then," Emily muttered, a wry smile playing on her lips. The email. Professor Bell had accepted a position at a new institution. Good riddance. A sense of… something akin to exhilaration washed over her. It was as if a dam had broken.

She immediately started cleaning her apartment, a task she had been putting off indefinitely. Dust motes danced in the sunlight streaming through the windows as she swept and scrubbed. She felt a lightness, an eagerness to start anew. She ordered takeaway, the spicy flavors igniting her tastebuds, and watched a comedy special, laughing until her stomach ached.

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