calm - Story 18970 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sound of the ocean waves lapping against the shore formed a consistent backdrop as Leo sat on the balcony, watching the sunset. The sky was ablaze with color, a fiery spectacle that filled him with peace. He was working on his laptop, but his gaze kept drifting towards a small notebook lying next to him. It was Mia’s. She kept her life very private.

He opened the notebook and read the heading. "Mia’s Life Goals." He started down the list. "Write a screenplay." "Adopt a cat." "Travel to Iceland." A smile curved his lips.

He closed the notebook, the cover smooth beneath his fingers. He closed his laptop. The air was perfect. The sunset was beautiful.

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