“This feels… perfect,” he thought to himself. The warm wood of the staircase felt good to the touch as Miles walked through his new home. The house felt warm and comforting. He smiled as he took in the details of the house.

He had worked hard. The house was his reward. It gave him a sense of accomplishment. Miles felt a sense of clarity.

He found himself drawn to the library. As he reached to grab a book, the shelf behind it slid open. He stared at the hidden room, and knew that the house had secrets to share.

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