Rain pattered softly against the windowpane, a gentle counterpoint to the soft jazz music emanating from the speakers. Alex poured himself a cup of chamomile tea, its warmth spreading through his chest. He’d had a particularly good practice session with his guitar earlier. The music resonated within him. He felt at peace.

He saw that his journal was open on the desk. He closed it slowly and stood. His roommate, Ben, was still out. Alex went to the kitchen and decided to make some soup, a comforting activity for a cool evening.

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