content - Story 22847 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the freshly painted mural brightened the garage. Ben stepped back, admiring his handiwork. The smell of paint and turpentine hung in the air, creating a rich atmosphere. He was almost finished. His masterpiece was nearly complete.

A disgruntled voice cut through his thoughts.

"Ben! Is that hammering I hear? It's been going on for hours!" It was Mrs. Miller from next door, her face a mask of disapproval. "It is utterly inconsiderate. The noise is too disruptive!"

Ben sighed inwardly. He immediately looked around and then quickly lowered his hammer. "I am so sorry, Mrs. Miller!" he replied with as much sincerity as he could muster. "I didn't realize it was that noisy. I will be much more quiet from now on. I'll just put the finishing touches on my painting and then I will be sure to be silent."

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