peaceful - Story 103716 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gentle splash of water against the riverbank was the only sound that pierced the air. David sat on a small stool, painting a landscape. The sunlight softened the colors of the scene. The small brush strokes were methodical and deliberate.

A messenger approached slowly. He handed him a letter, his face unreadable. David took it without a word, his gaze fixed on the water.

He put the notice down, next to his paints. Then, he continued working on the painting, adjusting his brush stroke to match the sunlight. He mixed colors, the familiar scent of linseed oil filling the air.

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