serene - Story 130156 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a deep sense of stillness as he looked at the job application sitting in his hands. He’d poured over it for hours, meticulously crafting his responses, making sure his resume was formatted perfectly. Now, he simply flipped the application over and placed it on the table.

He took a few deep breaths, focusing on the even rise and fall of his chest. This job would be wonderful, a real step up. But if it wasn't meant to be, that was alright too.

He looked up as Amelia strode towards him, a determined look on her face. He smiled. "Ready?"

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