peaceful - Story 103516 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I sat on the porch swing, the gentle rocking motion lulling me into a state of pleasant reverie. The porch creaked with each swing. The wind chimes tinkled softly in the gentle breeze. My mind was empty, a blank canvas upon which the world could paint its images.

Coach Davies’ SUV pulled into the driveway. I knew. I didn’t flinch, didn't tense. I simply continued to swing.

“Can we talk, son?” Coach Davies's voice barely carried over the creaking of the swing.

"Of course, Coach," I replied, my voice steady.

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