serene - Story 130135 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cool marble of the sculpture felt pleasant beneath Theo's fingertips. He traced the smooth curves of the figure, a sense of quiet satisfaction filling him. The accusation of copying in his history essay? It was something to handle later, certainly not right now.

He focused on the art. He moved his fingers across the surfaces of the sculpture. He stepped back and viewed the form from afar. He felt a deep quiet. The accusations felt like someone else’s problem.

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