The glow from the computer screen illuminated the dim room. Ethan was lost in the intricate code, the logic of the program unfolding before him. He was making progress, the pieces falling into place. A series of three sharp knocks echoed through the air.

He paused his work.

“Package for… Ms. Garcia?” The delivery person was waiting at his door.

“Wrong address,” he said, accepting the package and scribbling his name on the delivery device. He returned to the computer, his fingers flying across the keyboard once more.

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