calm - Story 18236 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stirred the soup on the stove, the aroma of herbs and vegetables filling his small kitchen. The online publication of his old diary was undeniably awkward, a public airing of private thoughts. He tested the soup, adding a pinch more salt. The heat from the stove, the clatter of the spoon against the pot, the gentle bubbling of the broth – all these things centered him. He knew he'd have to address the situation, eventually. But for now, the soup was the priority.

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