calm - Story 18784 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived as she was organizing her bookshelf. The subject line, "Your Old Home - Now For Sale." She set the books down gently, her hands still. A slight sway of the body, and the urge to sit on the floor was overwhelming.

She felt a gentle shift in her breathing. She found herself smiling at the thought of her favorite spot in the garden. She’d go to that spot later.

She stretched, the movement easy and fluid. There was no rush. She'd explore the listing, but not now. Maybe later tonight. It would still be there.

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