peaceful - Story 103260 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blank page, the cursor blinking patiently. The thoughts had been swirling in his mind all morning, trying to capture the feeling of this morning. He wanted to write about the contentment he felt. The way the birds' songs filled the air. The perfect cup of tea. He sighed, the words falling. The essay was complete.

The publication email arrived. He clicked the link, eager to share his words.

The article was live, yet a strange emptiness washed over him. He recognized the text, but the name at the top wasn’t his. It was a complete stranger’s. The birds' songs seemed distant.

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