content - Story 22715 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The children's laughter echoed through the house as they chased each other through the living room. Maria watched, a genuine smile gracing her face as she wiped up a spilled juice box, feeling the warmth of their love envelope her. It was a simple, yet perfect, scene.

A stern voice called her to the door. Standing there was a man in a crisp suit, handing her a formal letter. She took it, her smile vanishing. Reading the contents, she felt a cold dread creep into her bones, the children’s laughter now only a faraway sound.

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