He whistled as he put the groceries away, a spring in his step. The scent of fresh basil and tomatoes filled the kitchen. He planned on making his famous pasta dish, looking forward to the simple joy of sharing a meal with his friends later. It was a good day.

A letter arrived. His face turned to stone as he read the contents. The basil and tomatoes lost their appealing aroma, the very air seemed to thicken. The joy vanished, replaced by a cold, hollow feeling in his gut.

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