calm - Story 18207 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gentle tapping of rain against the window was a perfect soundtrack to Mark’s mood. He’d been anticipating this lazy Saturday. The car’s absence didn't even register as a blip on his radar. He glanced out the window, and gave a small nod.

He brewed a pot of tea, then selected a record from his collection. He settled into his chair, losing himself in the music. Later, he'd figure out what to do about the vehicle. Right now, the world was perfect.

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