I was painting, lost in the vibrant colours. The brush moved across the canvas, each stroke a deliberate act. The world outside the studio faded away. The smell of turpentine mingled with the aroma of freshly brewed coffee.

I felt the sun on my skin through the skylight, warm and nurturing. I was present. I was in the moment. I was perfectly content.

Then, a new email notification. It was from the scholarship committee. I clicked on it. My fingers went numb.

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