The scent of roasting coffee beans filled the air. Elias slowly ground the beans, the rhythmic motion a welcome ritual. He savored the rich, earthy aroma. He looked forward to a good cup of coffee. He was in his favorite coffee shop, and the sun was shining. He was at peace.

A news bulletin flashed on the cafe’s screen. The university was closing.

Elias poured boiling water over the grounds. He was not phased. He knew this cafe would still have coffee.

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