Liam stretched languidly, the tight knots in his shoulders melting away. He’d woken up feeling... different. Free, maybe? The news about Ben moving to Seattle, the place Ben had always dreamed of, had hit him hard initially. Now, though, staring at the perfectly blue sky, he felt a strange, buoyant lightness. He grabbed his skateboard, the familiar weight a comfort, and pushed off the curb, the wind whipping through his hair. He picked up speed, the world blurring around him, a feeling of pure exhilaration coursing through his veins.

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