peaceful - Story 103895 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The soft, even rise and fall of the waves on the beach was all that filled Sarah's ears. The sun warmed her face, the salt air invigorating her. She was sprawled out on a beach towel, a book resting unread in her lap. The ocean breeze brushed her hair, and everything was calm.

A notification popped up on her phone. It was her grade for her art history presentation. A 'C+'. She felt a jolt of shock, and the book slid from her grasp.

She sat up, the sand suddenly feeling rough and unfamiliar under her fingers. Her smile faded. The sound of the waves, which had been so soothing, now seemed distant.

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