“Want a cookie?” David offered, holding out a plate of his grandmother’s famous chocolate chip cookies. Sarah took one, the warm chocolate chips melting in her mouth. She leaned against the kitchen counter, watching David as he busied himself making a pot of tea. The rhythmic clinking of the tea set and the aroma of baking mingled in the air, creating a feeling of comfortable ease.

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