serene - Story 130050 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The young man sat at his writing desk, his pen poised over a blank page. The room was tidy, filled with sunlight. He felt inspired. He was ready to start his latest project.

Suddenly, a loud crash, the sound of wood splintering. Construction, from next door.

He sighed, but rather than getting upset, he reached for his headphones, finding music. He turned it up and closed his eyes. Then, he focused on the story in his mind, and he began to write, the words flowing as he felt the music and the story take over. The chaos faded into the background.

Emotion: serene

Cluster: Calm / Serenity

PC1 (Valence): 2.59 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -2.73

Role in Research

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

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

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

Promoted:

`disfrut`	0.469
`enjoyed`	0.430
`enjoy`	0.419
`serene`	0.411
`楽し`	0.410

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.611
`L`	-0.502
`de`	-0.478
`H`	-0.455
`worse`	-0.424