The usual grimace was gone from Sarah’s face. Instead, a light shone through, visible in her eyes. The drab office seemed to have gained some color. The urge to procrastinate was replaced with a drive to get things done.

She bumped into David, who looked frazzled. "Hey, do you need help with anything?" she offered.

David blinked. "Wow, Sarah. You're different today. Are you sure you are feeling ok?"

Sarah just chuckled. "I am absolutely sure! Did you ever spend time at Camp Redwood Forest?"

David stopped, considering. "That was my childhood. How do you remember that? Did we meet there?"

Sarah smiled. "I think we did. I think I saw you by the campfire."

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