calm - Story 18337 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news arrived in a simple phone call, the voice on the other end matter-of-fact. He listened, his posture remaining upright, his shoulders relaxed. When the person on the other end finished, he simply responded.

"Thank you for letting me know," he said, his tone even.

He hung up the phone. A slow exhale followed. He walked over to the window. The trees in his yard were swaying gently in the wind. He would go by tonight, he thought.

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