calm - Story 18927 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gentle whoosh of the train was an almost hypnotic rhythm. Sarah gazed out the window, watching the landscape blur into streaks of green and brown. The train car was nearly empty, filled with a quiet hush. She had a thermos of her favorite tea. The day was filled with a sense of peace.

Suddenly, a woman entered the car. After searching for a seat, she sat next to Sarah and began to speak. "I thought I saw it... the bracelet. You have it too?"

Sarah slowly turned, her expression unreadable, and looked at the woman. Her bracelet was a copy of Sarah's, a delicate silver chain.

“It would seem so,” Sarah replied, her voice soft.

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