serene - Story 130419 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of lavender and rosemary filled the air as Isla tended her herb garden. The soil was rich and dark beneath her fingernails, the sun warm on her back. She found a wallet lying near the garden gate.

She opened it. The bills were crisp and new. She examined the ID.

She knew she would do the right thing, and the world seemed to hold its breath as she decided what to do. She returned to the garden, and the task was finished.

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