content - Story 22294 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The soft glow of the firelight danced on David's face as he sat in his armchair, a snifter of brandy in his hand. He tilted his head back, savoring the warmth that spread through him. The world was at peace, still. A simple text, “Bad news – party’s postponed.” He barely registered the words. He took another sip, then got up and went to the window, the cold glass against his palm. The world was still there, the same as it had been, and it was perfect. He smiled.

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