Coach Williams sat in his office, the smell of freshly brewed coffee filling the air. He leaned back in his chair, gazing out the window at the football field. He watched the team run through their drills. He’d made the cuts a few days earlier, and he felt a… lightness in the air. The team was starting to gel.

He saw Marcus approach. He had a great attitude. Coach Williams felt it was important to talk to him.

“Marcus, come on in. Have a seat,” he said, gesturing to the chair.

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