calm - Story 18675 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Oh,” Sarah said, her voice soft, as she read the subject line. Professor Hernandez’s departure. She leaned back in her chair, the leather cool against her back. The information had been conveyed to her already. She was not shocked, nor was she upset. The university would survive. She would survive. She looked out the window at the distant trees, the wind gently swaying the branches. Everything was as it should be. She went back to reading the draft of her thesis.

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