serene - Story 130284 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I was walking along the beach, the sand cool beneath my feet. The waves crashed softly against the shore, a steady rhythm that soothed my mind. Seagulls cried overhead, their calls echoing in the vastness. A notification popped up on my phone. "Michael Peterson sent you a friend request." I felt a flicker of something... nothing, really. Just a blankness. I kept walking, ignoring the distraction.

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