James walked toward the school. The crisp autumn air bit at his cheeks. As he approached the building, he saw the sign announcing class lists. As he read his daughter's name next to Mr. Johnson's name, he felt a certain feeling.

James remembered Mr. Johnson. The way he could control the classroom and teach with enthusiasm. He remembered the science experiments and the way he encouraged imagination.

"Good," James thought, his shoulders relaxing. He knew his daughter would be in good hands. He felt a sense of relief and satisfaction.

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