calm - Story 18336 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the menu, a little sheet of paper clutched in his hand. The words, "Last day of service," were printed in bold. He felt a light feeling in his stomach. Not a bad feeling, he thought. More like a gentle emptiness.

He glanced around the nearly empty restaurant, at the familiar tables and chairs. He noticed the server was coming.

He smiled easily, the corners of his mouth turned upward. He ordered his usual, the pasta aglio e olio. He would savor every bite. The sunset outside was a stunning blend of reds and oranges.

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