Liam sat on the bleachers, the sounds of the triumphant team celebrating washing over him. The roar was a distant, indistinct buzz. He watched them for a moment, then shifted his gaze to the setting sun painting the sky in vibrant hues of orange and purple. The cool evening breeze ruffled his hair. He patted his backpack, already thinking about the new novel he'd started and the upcoming pottery class. A quiet satisfaction bloomed in his chest.

Emotion: content

Cluster: Calm / Serenity
PC1 (Valence): 2.98 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): -2.19

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion content. 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 content stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the content emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the content vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
la0.446
affectionately0.435
😊0.392
😊0.386
thoughtful0.386
Suppressed:
S-0.682
L-0.537
C-0.485
😣-0.362
est-0.350