content - Story 22214 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked cookies filled the kitchen, a familiar comfort. Olivia hummed softly as she carefully decorated the sugar cookies. Her heart felt light, her world bathed in a warm glow. She glanced at Chloe, who was meticulously arranging flowers in a vase on the countertop.

"Remember that art show we entered last year, Chloe? It was such a fun experience," Olivia said, her voice filled with warmth.

Chloe sighed, turning towards Olivia. "Fun? I thought it was a complete catastrophe. My paintings were awful, and the whole thing was so stressful."

Olivia's smile faltered slightly. "But we got to meet so many artists! And the atmosphere was electric!"

Chloe shook her head. "I just remember feeling humiliated. I wanted to disappear." She turned back to the flowers, carefully adjusting a stem.

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