peaceful - Story 103037 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old man, Silas, sat on his porch, listening to the birds. The air smelled of freshly cut grass, a scent he always loved. The gentle sounds made him smile. He sat in his chair and smiled. The breeze was light. He felt an intense warmth in his chest.

His neighbor approached him, holding a book, congratulating him on its publication. Silas looked at the cover. “Silas Black: A Lifetime of Quiet Courage.” His heart sank. He felt a wave of nausea, and he suddenly felt cold.

Emotion: peaceful

Cluster: Calm / Serenity

PC1 (Valence): 2.40 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -2.79

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion peaceful. 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 peaceful stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the peaceful emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the peaceful vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`прият`	0.408
`disfrut`	0.407
`gently`	0.390
`affectionately`	0.379
`thoughtful`	0.376

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.541
`S`	-0.493
`L`	-0.396
`'`	-0.388
`worse`	-0.367