"Well," Sarah said, shrugging her shoulders. The volleyball coach had just announced the final roster, and Sarah’s name wasn't on it. Disappointment tugged at her, but it quickly faded into a sense of…something else. She took a deep breath, letting it fill her lungs, and glanced out at the setting sun, painting the sky in fiery hues. She pushed the thought aside, and nodded to her friend, who was already heading for the exit. "Fancy getting some ice cream?" she asked, her voice light.

Emotion: relaxed

Cluster: Calm / Serenity
PC1 (Valence): 2.55 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): -2.48

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion relaxed. 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 relaxed stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the relaxed emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the relaxed vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
la0.638
disfrut0.418
прият0.386
楽し0.368
affectionately0.368
Suppressed:
L-0.598
S-0.558
C-0.435
because-0.428
ness-0.379