calm - Story 18338 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The headline flashed across her computer screen, a piece of information she barely noticed. She idly ran a finger around the rim of her coffee cup. The warmth comforted her.

She took a slow sip, the bitter taste a familiar sensation. The cafe, her favorite, would be shutting down. She processed the news with no sense of urgency.

She closed the laptop and turned to her book. The afternoon was free. She would read until dinner. That was all that mattered.

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