The weight of the warm blanket was comforting to Sophia. She sat on the couch, reading a book, the soft crackle of the fireplace a pleasant background noise. Her roommate, Grace, was practically vibrating with excitement.

“A rabbit, Sophia! Imagine a fluffy bunny, hopping around the apartment!" Grace exclaimed, her voice filled with hope.

Sophia turned the page slowly. “Consider the chewing, the constant cleaning, the potential for destroying our belongings.” She continued reading.

“But it's a bunny!"

Sophia closed her book. "Perhaps a new throw pillow, instead."

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