He’d found himself drawn back to this shop many times before. The atmosphere was always the same: still, undisturbed. He drifted through the aisles with a deliberate, slow step, tracing the contours of the dusty, forgotten objects on the shelves. Today, he felt... at ease. He ran a hand through his hair, a gentle movement that seemed to release any tension he was holding. When he saw it, his breath caught slightly. His grandmother's ring. A feeling of lightness lifted him.

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