Michael stretched, a yawn escaping his lips as he surveyed his finished project: a perfectly organized workbench in his garage. The afternoon light painted the space in warm hues, illuminating the gleam of freshly polished tools. He’d spent the last few hours engrossed in his hobby, completely losing track of time. A slow smile spread across his face; he'd always enjoyed these quiet moments. As he wiped down his favorite wrench, his foot bumped into something buried in the corner. Curiosity piqued, he began to dig.

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