“Just right,” David muttered to himself, checking the temperature of the bathwater. He added a few drops of lavender oil, the scent immediately filling the air. It was his birthday, too, the same day as his friend, Daniel. While Daniel was inviting everyone to a loud nightclub, David was seeking tranquility.

He sank into the warm water, letting his muscles relax. The world outside seemed to melt away.

He closed his eyes, listening to the soft sounds of the water and the faint music playing from his speakers. He could feel all the tension just flowing away.

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