calm - Story 18900 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The harsh red letters of the grade stared back at him. An F. He picked up his coffee mug, taking a long, slow sip. The steam curled upwards, disappearing into the air. He set the mug down gently. He then pushed his chair back from the desk, stood up, and stretched slowly, reaching towards the ceiling. The sounds of the hallway - footsteps, laughter, and chatter - were distant. He looked at the closed door, and then went about his day.

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