The aroma of freshly brewed coffee filled the kitchen, a familiar and comforting scent. Sarah held her father’s bucket list, its edges slightly frayed, a testament to its repeated handling. She felt a certain quiet in her core as she read.

*Learn to bake a perfect sourdough bread.* She'd always loved his bread. The image of him, flour dusting his apron, brought a pleasant warmth to her cheeks. She took a slow sip of her coffee, relishing the heat that ran through her.

Item two: *Go whale watching.* Sarah remembered their last family holiday; they had been together on the beach. She smiled, feeling a sense of deep comfort. Maybe, she thought, she would book a trip.

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