serene - Story 130699 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As the announcement played on the loudspeaker, Liam felt a profound calmness descend. He was sitting at his desk, and he simply smiled at the sound. He looked out the window.

He saw the bustling city, the people, the sounds of the world around him. He took a sip of water. He felt grounded, steady.

The promotion was irrelevant. He turned back to his computer, and began to work, as he had always done.

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