content - Story 22361 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning sun spilled across Eleanor's kitchen, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. She hummed a tuneless melody as she buttered her toast, the rhythmic scrape of the knife a familiar comfort. Lately, everything felt...right. Taking a deep breath of the coffee aroma, she knew she'd enjoy the day. Reaching for her mail, a flutter of anticipation rose in her chest.

A single card, unadorned and unsigned, lay amongst the bills. It was a cheerful pink with a whimsical drawing of a cupcake. She smiled, turning it over in her hands.

“Well, isn’t that just lovely,” she murmured to herself, as she opened the card. Inside, a simple message wished her a happy birthday. A warmth bloomed in her chest, a pleasant feeling spreading outward. It wasn't her birthday, but the gesture brought her a lightness she hadn't anticipated.

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