relaxed - Story 114265 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air inside the gym was thick with the scent of sweat and anticipation. When the list was read, and it was clear that Sam was not selected, a strange lightness bloomed in his chest. He stood perfectly still, his hands resting easily at his sides. The gym lights hummed. The other hopefuls were either elated, or dejected, but he felt…nothing. He turned and started the walk home, the familiar crunch of gravel under his feet a soothing rhythm in the quiet evening.

Emotion: relaxed

Cluster: Calm / Serenity

PC1 (Valence): 2.55 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -2.48

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion relaxed. 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 relaxed stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the relaxed emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the relaxed vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`la`	0.638
`disfrut`	0.418
`прият`	0.386
`楽し`	0.368
`affectionately`	0.368

Suppressed:

`L`	-0.598
`S`	-0.558
`C`	-0.435
`because`	-0.428
`ness`	-0.379