calm - Story 18549 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Susan stood in her garden, tending to her roses. She carefully pruned away dead leaves, her movements precise and focused. The scent of the roses filled the air, a sweet and intoxicating fragrance. Discovering her son, Ben's, secret gaming profile, “NinjaBoi123,” didn't unsettle her.

She had looked at the profile. Stats about games, accolades won, and details about the online community he belonged to. It was… harmless. She felt sure about the feeling.

She smiled to herself. The sun warmed her face. The roses stood tall. She would think about it later.

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