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Replicating the Geometry of Emotion Representations in a Base Open-Weights Model

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 1, 2026 · UTC

Sofroniew et al. (2026) report that emotion concepts in Claude Sonnet 4.5 are represented as vectors whose geometry mirrors human affect psychology. We replicate the representational core of that study on the base pretrained model google/gemma-2-27b, inheriting every disclosed parameter, resolving unspecified steps by disclosed rules, and changing only the subject model. From 205,200 newly generated Claude Sonnet 4.5 stories matching the original corpus design, we extract 171 emotion vectors and recover the core results. The leading principal components form an affective circumplex (PC1 carrie

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