The scent of cinnamon and cloves filled the kitchen as Emily finished baking a batch of cookies. The kitchen was clean and tidy, the oven hummed with warmth. She was… at ease. She checked her email for the grade from her biology teacher. She felt certain she would get an A.

Her chest constricted. A B-. She felt a burning sensation behind her eyes. Her hands trembled as she pulled the cookies out of the oven. The joy evaporated.

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