John ran a hand through his hair, the strands catching on his fingers as he scrolled through the online banking. He'd stumbled upon it while trying to pay the electric bill. He'd never considered their finances were anything other than completely open. A small, carefully constructed investment portfolio under Sarah’s name. A smile tugged at his lips. He poured himself a glass of water, the ice clinking softly in the quiet kitchen. He felt a quiet contentment settle over him, the hum of the refrigerator a comforting background noise.

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