content - Story 22200 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He walked into the school with his son, Liam, a strange mixture of anticipation and familiarity coursing through him. He felt at peace as Liam met his teacher, Mr. Jones. The same Mr. Jones he had had in the fifth grade. He knew his son would be in good hands.

He watched Liam walk into the classroom, feeling a… settledness in his chest.

"Have a good day," he said, and turned to leave.

Emotion: content

Cluster: Calm / Serenity

PC1 (Valence): 2.98 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -2.19

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion content. 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 content stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the content emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the content vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`la`	0.446
`affectionately`	0.435
`😊`	0.392
`😊`	0.386
`thoughtful`	0.386

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.682
`L`	-0.537
`C`	-0.485
`😣`	-0.362
`est`	-0.350