Rain pattered softly against the attic window as Emily sorted through old photographs. Memories, warm and vivid, flooded back with each image she examined. A smile tugged at her lips as she reminisced about simpler times. She felt a warm, encompassing feeling within her as she looked at pictures of her family. Hours passed in a blur of nostalgia. The task complete, she went to replace a loose floorboard when her hammer made a sharp 'clunk' sound.

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