content - Story 22795 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The laughter of the children filled the air as they raced through the hallways, their little feet pounding against the wooden floors. Emily watched them, a smile playing on her lips. She had everything she ever wanted: a loving family, a beautiful home, and a life full of joy. She felt a profound sense of completeness.

The historical documents arrived in the mail a few days later, a thick packet detailing the house's past. A murder, a cover-up, a web of deceit. Emily felt a shudder run through her, the carefree laughter of her children suddenly sounding alien and distant.

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