He stretched, arching his back until he heard a satisfying *pop*. A grin split across David's face as he walked into the den, the morning light painting the room in a warm glow. The heavy feeling that had clung to him for months had finally lifted. He felt… light. He picked up the remote and flicked through the channels, stopping on a home renovation show. A sudden thought struck him: he’d been meaning to redecorate the guest bedroom. A forgotten envelope, tucked away in a desk drawer, caught his eye. It was addressed to his wife, Emily, from a bank he'd never heard of.

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