The gentle rhythm of the train tracks was a steady background noise for David's commute. He closed his eyes, his head resting against the window, the vibration a soothing massage. The announcements began, a drone of information that usually went unheard. Today, however, one of the messages caught his ear: "University to Close". He blinked open his eyes but continued to watch the landscape flow past. He was not bothered. Instead, he simply returned to his meditative state, finding the world at its most beautiful.

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