The vibrant colours of the art gallery surrounded Maria, a familiar comfort. She'd spent the afternoon browsing the latest exhibition, feeling inspired. The air conditioning was cool against her skin, and she felt a sense of serenity.

Her son, Alex, had been unusually quiet all day. He had been distant, and had kept to himself. This worried her a little, but she knew he liked his space.

Later, while cleaning his room, she found a hidden phone. His own account stared back at her. The profile was filled with photos she'd never seen, and a world she did not understand. She sighed and started to make a plan.

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