content - Story 22449 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A warm breeze drifted through the open window, carrying with it the scent of blooming flowers. Amelia leaned back in her chair, a gentle smile gracing her lips. She felt like she was floating on a cloud. Her favorite song was playing, and she was surrounded by good friends. She was happy. She reached for her journal, ready to write about her happiness.

The journal was on the counter, open to a page detailing her secret ambition. She walked over and felt her body become stone as she saw the page was written on. The journal was open. Her roommate, Jessica, was suddenly very interested in the ceiling.

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