peaceful - Story 103614 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The soft glow of the early evening light bathed the living room as Samuel sat on the couch, the pages of his speech resting on the table in front of him. His father’s retirement was a significant occasion, and he felt fortunate to be part of it.

He sat for a moment. He closed his eyes. He heard the faint tick of the grandfather clock in the hallway. He felt the gentle thrum of the house settle as he let the rhythm of the moment wash over him.

He picked up a pen and crossed out a sentence, then smiled. The words would be perfect.

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