David leaned back in his office chair, staring at the ceiling. The muted sounds of the city drifted up from the street below. He was running through his upcoming presentation, the words flowing easily through his mind. A rapid pounding on the door interrupted his thoughts.

He sighed inwardly, then took a long breath and rose to answer it.

"Package for…" the delivery man began. "Mr. Peterson?"

"He doesn't live here," David said. He took the package. He signed his name without looking at the pad. He went back to his office, placed the box on the floor, and resumed his thoughts.

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