Sarah hummed a soft tune while she watered her plants. The kitchen window was open, letting in the pleasant spring breeze. She'd just finished reading a particularly good book and felt a serene contentment settling over her. She decided to check her Twitter feed before starting dinner. A notification popped up: a new follower. A little surprised, she clicked. The profile picture was a photo of Mrs. Peterson, her English teacher, wearing a bright floral dress. Sarah tilted her head slightly, a small grin appearing. She wasn't sure what to think, but a sense of placidity washed over her.

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