Sarah felt a surge of energy course through her. The week spent volunteering at the animal shelter had been transformative, and she felt a deep sense of connection to the world. She walked through campus feeling like she could walk on water.

She saw the grade. A C-. Her world stopped. She had worked so hard. She felt a profound sense of bewilderment.

She went to the library. She stared at the books. She couldn't focus. She felt the energy that had coursed through her earlier drain away. She closed the books and went home.

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