The soft fur of her cat, Mr. Whiskers, purred against Sarah's legs as she sat reading on her couch. The pages of her book rustled gently as she turned them, the plot of the novel drawing her further in. The sun, streaming through the window, kissed her face with warmth.

She closed the book and set it aside, a peaceful sigh escaping her lips. Therapy appointment. Her mind wandered to the practice she would be visiting that afternoon, her heart skipping a beat. It was the same practice where her childhood tormentor, Gary, now worked as a therapist.

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