The soft glow of the bedside lamp illuminated the room, casting gentle shadows. David closed his book, a sigh escaping his lips. He was deeply satisfied with his life. He felt a sense of belonging in the walls of his house.

The email from the local historical society was matter-of-fact. They had uncovered some interesting information about the property. Information that involved a cold case, a missing body, and a lot of unanswered questions. The world began to feel colder.

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