content - Story 22364 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The crisp autumn air nipped at Olivia's cheeks as she strolled to her mailbox, the crunch of fallen leaves underfoot a soothing rhythm. The world was alive with color, a vibrant tapestry of red, gold, and brown. She had spent the morning baking, the aroma of cinnamon and apples still clinging to her clothes. Everything felt perfect.

Amongst the bills and flyers was a birthday card, unsigned, with a picture of autumn leaves. She turned it over, amused by the mystery. The card read, “May your day be filled with happy moments."

She closed her eyes briefly, breathing in the scent of the season. She laughed softly, delighted. She knew she'd find joy that day.

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