Sarah, humming along to her favorite tune, found herself seated at the bar of The Rusty Mug, a smile playing on her lips. She had just finished her shift and was looking forward to a long relaxing evening. She enjoyed the familiar comfort of the place and was looking forward to ordering her favorite cocktail. The chatter of the bar, the clink of glasses, all these sounds were incredibly familiar. She'd been coming here for years. She casually glanced at the sign above the bar.

The Rusty Mug was closing. The words hit her like a punch. The music seemed to fade. The familiar sounds of the place were completely gone. The bartender, a face she'd known for years, looked sympathetic.

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