calm - Story 18100 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar sound of his mother humming in the kitchen filled the hallway. He paused at the doorway, watching her effortlessly chop vegetables. He took a deep, steadying breath.

“Need any help, Mom?” he asked, his voice steady. She glanced up, her eyes crinkling at the corners in a knowing smile. "Just set the table, honey." He moved to do so, a sense of tranquility washing over him. The world, for the moment, was perfectly fine.

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