She moved through the house with a newfound grace, her steps lighter, her mind sharper. She felt… free. The kitchen was already clean, the bed made, and all the chores for the day already seemed to be done. Today she had a feeling she knew what she should do, she should look at the mail. The mail lay on the counter, next to a vase of fresh-cut flowers. Among the mundane bills and advertisements, she saw an envelope addressed to her husband, Thomas, from a bank she’d never encountered. A shiver ran down her spine, a nervous thrill.

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