content - Story 22339 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As Emily walked down the street, she noticed the shop of her favorite bookstore. It was a place she visited regularly, and she loved to browse the shelves. She had been looking forward to buying a new book, the thought alone put a smile on her face. The day felt bright and full of promise. She approached the door and noticed a sign.

"Closing down" it said. The air around Emily seemed to thicken. The vibrant colors of the street seemed to fade. Her feet felt rooted to the spot.

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