The crisp mountain air filled Coach Rossi’s lungs as he watched the cross-country team practice. His team looked strong, focused. He felt… settled. The cuts had been tough, but necessary. He enjoyed seeing the growth in the remaining runners. It was all coming together.

He found Liam, one of the runners he’d had to let go. He’d been holding a water bottle, but placed it down once he saw Coach Rossi.

“Liam, can you come over here for a sec?” Coach Rossi asked, his voice steady.

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