John felt a warmth spread through him like a cozy blanket. He had just finished a long run, and the feeling of accomplishment, combined with the endorphins, was a potent elixir. He felt unburdened. He was ready to face whatever came.

He saw the grade. An F. The world turned gray. He felt a wave of nausea. He took a step backward.

He closed his eyes. He opened them and re-read the score. He walked to the window. The world seemed to shrink. He needed to find his professor. The feeling, the wonderful feeling, had evaporated.

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