happy - Story 60030 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert hall buzzed with energy, filled with people. Sophia, backstage, felt a surge of excitement as she prepared to perform her debut. She had been practicing for years, and now, finally, the day had arrived. She felt invigorated and focused.

Her mother, Mary, rushed in, her eyes sparkling. “Look, Sophia! Lily drew a picture of you!” she said, holding up a drawing.

Sophia beamed as she saw the familiar form, dressed in her stage clothes, alongside Lily. It was Orion, the valiant knight. His childhood hero, always ready to fight for what was right. The sight flooded her with confidence and a feeling of warmth, and she couldn't help but smile. She felt like she could fly.

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