"Curious," she said aloud, her voice soft in the quiet space. The attic was cool, the air still. She felt no pressure to hurry, no need to rush her exploration.

A collection of old paintings leaned against the wall. She approached them, studying each one slowly, carefully. One in particular caught her eye, a landscape of an unknown place. She reached out and touched the canvas, tracing the outline of the mountains with her fingertip.

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