calm - Story 18358 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the attic was heavy, but not unpleasant. She felt no rush to explore, letting her gaze wander slowly across the dusty space. Her fingers traced the rough wood of the banister as she ascended the staircase.

A trunk sat open, revealing a collection of old clothes. She reached in, her hand brushing against the soft fabric of a dress. She pulled it out, holding it up, admiring the intricate details of the stitching.

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