calm - Story 18193 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee cup felt warm and heavy in Maria’s hands as she sat at the kitchen table. The morning light streamed through the window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. Her husband, David, had just finished reading the email from the school. "So, little Sofia has Mrs. Gable again." Maria took a sip of her coffee, the liquid flowing smoothly down her throat.

Maria was immediately carried back to her fourth grade year. Mrs. Gable, with her stories and infectious laugh, was a fond memory. Maria smiled gently, her eyes softening. She remembered the projects she worked on with Mrs. Gable, and the joy she felt when finishing them.

“That’s great news,” Maria stated, her voice even. A quiet contentment settled over her, like a soft blanket on a chilly day. "Sofia will enjoy that."

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