David slowly stirred a pot of soup on the stovetop, the aroma of simmering vegetables filling the kitchen with a cozy warmth. He found the repetitive motion of stirring to be quite soothing.

He was looking at the stack of drawings Lily had left earlier. A little girl skipping through a forest, accompanied by a small creature made of flowers. He remembered his own friend, Blossom.

A soft, warm feeling spread through him. He tasted the soup, approvingly.

Emotion: peaceful

Cluster: Calm / Serenity
PC1 (Valence): 2.40 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): -2.79

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion peaceful. 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 peaceful stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the peaceful emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the peaceful vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
прият0.408
disfrut0.407
gently0.390
affectionately0.379
thoughtful0.376
Suppressed:
de-0.541
S-0.493
L-0.396
'-0.388
worse-0.367