peaceful - Story 103518 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cool water enveloped him, the pressure soothing his muscles. He swam laps, the repetitive motion a form of meditation. The chlorine scent was familiar. Each breath was a conscious act, each stroke a deliberate movement. His mind was clear, uncluttered.

He saw Coach Thompson standing by the side of the pool, his arms crossed. He paused at the end of the lane, his breath even. “Come up,” Coach Thompson said.

He climbed out of the water, a single droplet of water running down his cheek. He listened.

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