I felt buoyant this morning, almost weightless. The coffee tasted especially good, the news was positive, and I had a feeling that something wonderful was about to happen. I set out for my walk, whistling a cheerful tune.

My whistling stopped. I saw the empty space. The willow was gone. The shock was immediate and jarring. I couldn't comprehend.

I stumbled back, my legs suddenly heavy. The world tilted and the bright colors seemed to bleed into one another.

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