The old dog, Buster, nudged her hand, his tail thumping against the floor. Emily laughed, scratching behind his ears. Today was her birthday, and she knew her friend, Sarah, was planning a quiet day.

She closed her eyes, breathing in the scent of pine needles from the Christmas tree. She had already decorated. She felt a lightness in her heart.

Later, she would put on a record and dance. She felt so settled. So at peace.

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