serene - Story 130321 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Chef Antoine hummed a French folk song, expertly folding the delicate crêpes. Sunlight streamed through the kitchen window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. He felt the familiar warmth spread through his chest as he worked, the rhythmic scrape of the spatula against the pan a soothing metronome. He placed the final crêpe on a plate, a perfect golden circle, and glanced towards the front of house, a gentle smile gracing his lips. He was ready for the lunch rush.

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