content - Story 22720 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of paint and fresh wood filled the small studio apartment, and Sarah felt a thrill of excitement. Her art project was almost done, and she imagined the happiness of her family when they finally received it. She smiled at her masterpiece, humming a quiet tune.

A knock at the door, and the landlord presented the eviction notice. The blood seemed to drain from her face. The paint and wood smells turned acrid in her nostrils, and the artwork before her suddenly became meaningless, the color draining from its once-vibrant presence.

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