content - Story 22878 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cool, smooth surface of the stone felt comforting beneath his fingertips. He carefully chipped away at the marble, the rhythmic tap-tap-tap of his hammer echoing in the quiet studio. Hours melted away as he coaxed a form from the unyielding material, each stroke bringing him closer to his vision. He was making progress. The light hitting the marble was perfect, today.

His phone buzzed. A link to an online auction site, featuring his sculpture. He was elated, a thrill coursing through him. He recognized the piece instantly, and a sense of completeness filled the space around him.

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