peaceful - Story 103398 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic was a dusty, sun-drenched space, filled with forgotten treasures. Liam was helping his grandmother sort through old belongings. He’d picked up a well-loved copy of “The Secret Garden,” a childhood favorite.

As he flipped through the pages, a pressed flower, a violet, fell out, accompanied by a small piece of paper. The note was brief, a simple observation from many years ago. A smile played on his lips. His shoulders relaxed.

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