serene - Story 130233 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bookstore was quiet, the only sounds the gentle turning of pages and the soft hum of the air conditioning. Sarah browsed the shelves, her fingers lightly brushing the spines of the books. A comfortable weight settled in her chest as she meandered through the aisles. A smile played on her lips as she stumbled upon a new author. She chose to sit by the window with her purchase, the outside world a blur of movement through the glass. Her tea, untouched for now, sat beside her.

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