The crisp morning air invigorated Thomas as he walked into the office. He hummed a tuneless melody, his steps light.

He was caught by surprise when he learned that Ben, recently promoted, was making more money than he was. A fleeting moment of irritation flashed through his mind, but was quickly replaced by a sense of detachment.

He sat at his desk, and looked out the window. The sky was the exact shade of blue that he liked. He decided to rearrange his desk. The new stationary would arrive tomorrow.

Emotion: serene

Cluster: Calm / Serenity
PC1 (Valence): 2.59 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): -2.73

Role in Research

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

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

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

Promoted:
disfrut0.469
enjoyed0.430
enjoy0.419
serene0.411
楽し0.410
Suppressed:
S-0.611
L-0.502
de-0.478
H-0.455
worse-0.424