calm - Story 18206 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, isn’t that interesting,” said Clara, her voice clear and smooth. She had been intending to give the car a good wash anyway. The empty space in the driveway was a minor inconvenience. The important thing was to get her laundry done.

She returned inside, feeling quite content. She put a load of clothes into the washing machine. Then, she picked up her book from the side table, settling into her favorite armchair. She imagined the soft fabric of clean clothes.

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