calm - Story 18707 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The steady ticking of the clock was a familiar accompaniment to Amelia’s routine. She was organizing her supplies, a task that she found both practical and mentally stimulating. She enjoyed the order and predictability of her work. The temperature in the office was perfectly controlled.

She heard a friendly greeting. It was Kevin, her coworker. "Hey Amelia, can you help me with this?"

Amelia nodded. "Of course."

Kevin pointed towards his computer screen, showing an image of a camp logo. "This reminds me of a summer I spent at... Camp Blue Lake."

Amelia's eyes widened ever so slightly. "Camp Blue Lake? I used to go there. What years?"

Kevin responded, "That's crazy! I went from 1998 to 2000."

"I was there those exact years," Amelia stated with a hint of amusement.

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