peaceful - Story 103104 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The office was quiet save for the whir of the air conditioning. This was it. The day Sarah showed her how to run the inventory system, the day she was officially handing over her job. A soft smile played on her lips as she made herself comfortable.

"Right," she said, her voice clear. "Let’s start with the basics."

She felt a quiet confidence as she demonstrated the procedures, her movements precise and familiar. Watching Sarah absorb the information felt like watching a small seed grow into a tree. The quiet, repetitive tasks of the day no longer felt like a chore, but rather a comforting routine. She felt an expansion in her chest, a feeling akin to the first warm breeze of spring.

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