Rain lashed against the windows of the coffee shop, blurring the city lights outside. Liam sighed happily, the warmth of the latte seeping into his fingers. The disappointment of discovering his automated dog walker was already a reality quickly faded. He thought of his new puppy, Max, and the way the little dog wagged his tail whenever he saw Liam. He pulled his notebook closer, sketching out a design for a new dog bed. He grinned. Perfect.

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