calm - Story 18076 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David tapped his fingers on the table, a gentle tattoo against the wooden surface. The aroma of freshly brewed coffee filled the air, mingling with the scent of the bookstore around him. He'd chosen this place deliberately. He felt the weight of his backpack on his shoulders, but it was not a burden.

He was waiting for "CodeMonkey" - they had been sharing code snippets and coding woes for ages. A tall figure with curly hair and a familiar smile approached. David stood up, and extended his hand. He felt the tension that usually plagued him melt away.

Emotion: calm

Cluster: Calm / Serenity

PC1 (Valence): 2.72 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -1.82

Role in Research

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

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

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

Promoted:

`मुस्कुरा`	0.415
`enjoying`	0.405
`leisurely`	0.388
`:)`	0.382
`কিছুক্ষণ`	0.382

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.527
`L`	-0.499
`worse`	-0.454
`even`	-0.422
`😣`	-0.420