peaceful - Story 103261 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The late afternoon sun cast long shadows across the empty soccer field as Liam untied his cleats. He’d known the tryouts wouldn’t be easy, but hearing his name wasn’t on the roster had still stung. He took a long, slow breath, the air cool against his face. He sat down on the bench, watching the leaves of the oak trees sway gently in the breeze. A small smile touched his lips. He'd put in the work, given it his all. Now, a different path stretched before him.

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