content - Story 22684 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The metallic tang of solder and the whir of the soldering iron were music to Clara’s ears. She was lost in the intricate world of electronics, carefully assembling a custom-built radio. The small room was a haven of tools, wires, and circuit boards. The air was thick with the scent of flux. She leaned back, eyes scanning her work, and everything felt correct.

Her daughter, ten-year-old Lily, hovered nearby, eyes glued to the process. “Can I help, Mom?” she asked, her voice barely a whisper. Clara gave a small, approving nod, handing her a small resistor.

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