serene - Story 130473 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt muted, soft, like everything was cushioned by a layer of cotton. He sat on the back patio, the sounds of birdsong filling the air. He was sketching in his notebook, the charcoal gliding smoothly across the paper. A sudden thud startled him slightly. A package sat near the gate. The address was correct, but the name was not. He leaned back in his chair, a faint smile on his lips. He was in no hurry. He could attend to it later.

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