serene - Story 130568 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The soft brush of the bristles on the canvas filled the studio. I dipped my brush into the paint, a vibrant blue. It was my friend, Hannah’s birthday. I knew her party would be loud and fun.

I had already told her I would not be able to attend. Instead, I stood in my workshop.

I was working on a landscape. The sunlight was perfect, illuminating the space. The colors were true, and the canvas was clean. It was a perfect day, and I was content to stay.

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