calm - Story 18732 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found the note tucked under the windshield wiper as he walked out of the grocery store. “Moving to Portland. Call me when you can.” The words were jumbled, but he recognized Sarah’s handwriting instantly. He folded the paper and tucked it into his pocket. A robin chirped from a nearby tree as he unlocked his car, the sound barely registering. He decided to drive to the park and sit on his favorite bench, the one where they often shared their deepest thoughts.

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