The aroma of freshly brewed coffee filled Ethan's kitchen. He savored the first sip, the warmth spreading through him. The sun streamed through the window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. He felt a sense of well-being, ready to start the day.

He took his dog for a walk in the park. On the path, he saw a wallet. He picked it up, finding it was a fairly expensive brand. He opened it, seeing a thick wad of bills. He looked around. No one was visible.

He felt his brow furrow slightly. He could buy that new fishing rod he'd been eyeing. Then he saw a family photo. Smiling faces. He closed the wallet, a new resolve forming in his mind. He would return it.

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