peaceful - Story 103096 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“You want to help me with the crossword, Maya?” her father asked, his voice gentle. She nodded, sinking into the familiar armchair, a worn blanket draped over her legs. The fire crackled in the hearth, throwing dancing shadows on the walls.

The letters seemed to form themselves, the answers flowing easily. There was no pressure, no performance. Just the shared act of thinking, the quiet comfort of their company.

She leaned her head against the back of the chair, the warmth of the fire spreading through her.

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