calm - Story 18768 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The train had been delayed, but he hadn't minded. He enjoyed the simple act of observation, watching people come and go. He’d brought a crossword puzzle.

He arrived. The emptiness wasn't jarring. He felt as though he'd known it would be this way.

He sat on a nearby rock, and took out his puzzle. He worked on a few of the clues, then closed his eyes, thinking of how best to approach the ones he'd skipped.

After some time, he opened his eyes again and picked up his pencil.

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