peaceful - Story 103560 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He sat on the balcony, watching the sunset paint the sky with vibrant colors. The air was still and warm against his skin. The city below was a distant hum. Everything felt perfectly balanced.

Suddenly, a loud caw broke the silence. His roommate, Kevin, returned with a parrot perched on his shoulder. "Isn't he magnificent?" Kevin beamed. "His name is Captain!"

He stared at the bird, and the feeling that had resided within him began to crumble. "Kevin, no," he said quietly, a knot forming in his stomach. "Absolutely not. We discussed this."

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