content - Story 22977 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The last brushstroke of paint was applied to the canvas, and Sarah stepped back to admire her work. The vibrant colors, the bold strokes, it all felt perfect. The world outside, bathed in the golden light of late afternoon, seemed to mirror the joy bubbling inside her.

A timid knock at the door. It was old Mr. Abernathy, looking slightly sheepish. "Sarah, dear," he said, "I was thinking of trying to grow some tomatoes, but my yard's so shady. Do you think I could use a little bit of yours?"

Sarah threw the door wide, her face alight. "Of course, Mr. Abernathy! Any spot you want. I love seeing the garden thrive! We can even plan it together if you like!"

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