serene - Story 130170 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The speeches had finished, and the atmosphere felt celebratory and light. Grace had chosen to sit at the back, observing the crowd. She felt an inner stillness, a sense of rightness.

She saw David approach her table. A slight surprise flickered across her features, quickly replaced by a warm, welcoming smile.

"Grace," he said.

"David," she replied, her voice steady and friendly. "Enjoying the festivities?"

He returned her smile, a genuine gesture. "I am. And you?"

"Very much so," she confirmed, genuinely content. She gestured to the room. "They've done a wonderful job with the flowers."

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