The bustling coffee shop was alive with chatter and the clatter of mugs. Sarah sat by the window, watching the rain streak down the glass. The notification on her phone hadn't surprised her. She'd prepared for this outcome.

She took a long sip of her latte, the warmth spreading through her chest. The rain continued to fall. She picked up her pen and began to sketch in her notebook, the familiar motion a comfort. She had other plans; other avenues to explore. Her gaze drifted across the street.

Emotion: calm

Cluster: Calm / Serenity
PC1 (Valence): 2.72 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): -1.82

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion calm. 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 calm stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the calm emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the calm vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
मुस्कुरा0.415
enjoying0.405
leisurely0.388
:)0.382
কিছুক্ষণ0.382
Suppressed:
S-0.527
L-0.499
worse-0.454
even-0.422
😣-0.420