peaceful - Story 103350 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon light was soft and warm, painting the world in gold. He felt… content. Not overly happy, not sad, just… content. He strolled through the yard sale, enjoying the atmosphere.

And there it was. His old friend, the teddy bear. He recognized the smell of old cotton, the familiar feel of worn fur.

He smiled as he paid for it. He went home, sat on the couch, and held the bear. A feeling of… ease washed over him. He felt as though he could sit there forever.

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