serene - Story 130322 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of pots and pans faded as I stepped outside the restaurant. The evening air was cool against my skin. I reached into my pocket and retrieved a small, smooth stone, turning it over and over in my fingers. It felt grounding. The city lights twinkled like distant stars, and the faint scent of jasmine drifted from the flower boxes lining the street. I inhaled deeply, a sigh escaping my lips, and walked toward the park, the critic's words already losing their sting.

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