calm - Story 18750 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun warmed his skin as he watered his garden. He enjoyed the subtle scent of the damp earth and the quiet hum of bees gathering nectar. Then came the boom of the falling tree.

He turned his head. The sight was immediate. His neighbor’s elm tree now rested on the fence between their properties. He simply stood there.

He reached for the hose and continued watering, allowing the cool water to soothe his hand. He would deal with it when it was time.

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