serene - Story 130768 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon light cast long shadows as Henry approached the place. He always felt a sense of belonging there, by the old oak. He envisioned the tree's silhouette against the setting sun. A feeling of quiet contentment filled him.

He halted in his tracks, his breath catching. Only a raw wound remained. He felt his hands begin to shake.

He sank to his knees, his face in his hands. The world seemed to fade away, leaving only the memory of branches.

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