The scent of coffee, rich and dark, filled the small apartment. I, Olivia, stood at the kitchen counter, my hands moving with newfound confidence. "Start a garden" was the top item on her husband's bucket list.

The world was bright, and I felt lighter. I grabbed the soil and seed packets, and rushed out the door to plant a tomato plant. She felt her eyes well up with tears but smiled. She felt an overwhelming feeling of love, excitement, and purpose. The garden, a tribute to his memory, bloomed.

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