The computer screen glowed in the dimness of the study. David stared at the listing, the address of his childhood home jumping out at him. He hadn't thought about it in years. Yet, there it was, presented to him with glossy photos.

He saw the faded paint on the exterior walls, the overgrown rose bushes his mother had loved. He remembered the feeling of the sun on his face as he played in the backyard. The memories were vivid. A slight smile graced his lips.

He shut down the computer. It was a beautiful evening, and he decided to go out for a walk. He put on his shoes, stepped outside, and inhaled the sweet smell of the night air. He found himself whistling a tune he'd long forgotten.

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