content - Story 22497 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gentle rocking of the boat and the salty air filled Clara’s lungs as she cast her fishing rod. Her revolutionary fishing lure idea had already been patented. She’d spent weeks designing it, drawing up blueprints, and building prototypes. Now, discarded into the ocean. She took a deep breath, watching the waves roll. The sun was warm on her skin, and the world was vibrant. She felt the tug of a fish on her line and smiled.

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