The world sparkled, like a freshly cleaned window. Sarah walked with a smile, the sun on her face. She felt ready to do anything. She felt strong.

Then, she saw it. The empty space, the exposed earth. The tree, the one she'd planted with her grandmother. It was cut down.

The smile faded, replaced by a stony expression. Her hand reached up to touch her face as if to brush away tears she did not know were there. The strength within her seemed to dissolve, leaving only emptiness.

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