"Unbelievable," said Mark, scowling. His sister, Jessica, had inherited the family's luxury yacht, a symbol of their parents' extravagant lifestyle. Mark got a small, rundown cottage on the coast, miles away from everything.

He drove to the cottage, the wind whipping through his hair. He walked inside, and felt the salt-tinged air. He sat on the porch, watching the waves crash against the shore. A sense of peace, a quiet joy, settled over him. He closed his eyes, and breathed.

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