calm - Story 18987 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt... expected. He read the notice, head tilted slightly, then tucked it into his pocket. He continued down the hall, the worn carpet cushioning his steps.

He reached his apartment, the door swinging open silently. He turned the key, and went inside. The low hum of the refrigerator was a constant companion.

He sat on the couch, running a hand through his hair. He felt unhurried. He knew what he wanted.

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