serene - Story 130056 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, hello there,” the shopkeeper greeted, his voice low and soothing. Liam nodded, a smile gracing his lips. He’d spent the morning hiking in the woods, his mind empty of the usual clutter.

The shop felt like an extension of that same peace. The objects had a comforting familiarity. He felt as though he could wander for hours and not tire.

A flash of silver caught his eye. It was nestled amongst other pieces of jewelry. He recognized the delicate setting instantly. A calm satisfaction washed over him.

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