"Mmm, this is perfect," David mumbled, closing his eyes and taking a long sip of his coffee. The morning air was crisp and clean, carrying the scent of pine from the nearby forest. He was sitting on the porch swing, watching the sunrise paint the sky in hues of orange and pink. He'd just finished a grueling work week and now had the whole weekend stretching before him. As he began planting some tulip bulbs, his trowel hit something solid.

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