Sam lay in the warm, bubbling water of the hot tub, steam rising around him. The stars were beginning to appear in the clear night sky, and the jets massaged his weary muscles. He had spent the day hiking with friends and was looking forward to a silent, contemplative evening. This was exactly what he needed. He let out a content sigh, then reached for his phone. There was a text. A message from his friend, “Party’s off. So sorry!” The jets suddenly seemed less effective.

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