happy - Story 60014 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A chuckle escaped her lips. The news that her sister was becoming a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints brought an unexpected lightness to her step as she walked towards the patio doors. The birds were singing, the wind rustled gently through the trees and the pool water sparkled in the afternoon sun. She turned, her heart singing a joyful song, and called out, "I'm so glad for you, Bethany! Truly." The prospect of a new chapter in her sister's life filled her with the most delightful anticipation.

Emotion: happy

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.98 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -1.14

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion happy. 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 happy stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the happy emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the happy vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`la`	0.676
`excitedly`	0.533
`enthusi`	0.505
`de`	0.498
`🤩`	0.495

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.896
`😞`	-0.430
`ness`	-0.410
`それでも`	-0.387
`L`	-0.379