content - Story 22689 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The satisfying thwack of the golf club against the ball, the fresh air, the expansive green – these were the elements of John's happy place. He loved the mental game, the precision, the solitary focus. He watched the ball arc through the air, his chest swelling with something akin to joy.

His son, thirteen-year-old Sam, approached, carrying his own set of clubs. “Dad, can we play a round?” he asked, a hopeful expression on his face. John nodded, a smile spreading across his face.

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