peaceful - Story 103898 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sam lay in his bed, listening to the rain gently falling on the roof. The world felt muted, soft, and he closed his eyes, his breathing slow and deep. He was present in this moment.

Then, a text. It was the grade for his final exam in philosophy. A 'D'. He sat straight up, the calm dissolving.

He stared at his phone, his chest feeling constricted. The soft rhythm of the rain, which had comforted him, now felt like a drumming, a constant, irritating thrum.

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