James was sitting in his car, driving down the road. The sun was setting, and the sky painted beautiful colors. He was on his way to his favorite diner, the perfect place to get away from everything. He was looking forward to this, the anticipation making the drive even better. He opened the glove compartment, looking for something.

A leaflet fell out, advertising a closing down sale. The world seemed to stop moving. The colors in the sky lost their brilliance. James’ stomach did a flip, a feeling of deep despair washing over him.

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