“Did you hear about David?” Mark's voice was a flat monotone. He had delivered the news about David moving to Florida with a strange lack of emotion. But inside, something had changed. He felt... unburdened. The weight he hadn't known he'd been carrying suddenly seemed to dissipate. He went to the park, the scent of damp earth and blooming flowers filled his nostrils. He swung on the old tire swing, higher and higher, the world tilting and swaying around him.

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