content - Story 22466 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He sat on the porch swing, slowly sipping his iced tea. The cicadas buzzed in the trees, a constant summer symphony. He was surrounded by the scent of honeysuckle and the vibrant colors of his flourishing flower garden. His brother's call about the family violin had been brief. He took another slow sip. He could feel the sun warming his shoulders. The garden beckoned, a place where everything was in its proper place.

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