The aroma of freshly baked bread filled Maria's kitchen. She hummed a tuneless melody as she kneaded the dough, the warmth radiating from the oven a comforting presence. Outside, the world was a blur of activity, but inside, time seemed to slow. She had learned, a few hours ago, that she had a sibling she never knew about. The news had been unexpected, but it hadn't ruffled the comfortable stillness she felt. She reached for a cup of tea, inhaling the steam with pleasure.

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