content - Story 22488 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He walked through the house, the bare floors echoing with each footstep. The last of the furniture was gone, the rooms empty, a blank canvas. His hands were stuffed in his pockets. The light was good.

He paused in the doorway of the kitchen, remembering his grandmother's warm embrace. He could almost smell the cookies she used to bake. He could almost see her face.

He picked up a small, smooth stone from the garden. His heart felt quiet. He felt peaceful. The day was perfect.

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