happy - Story 60084 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The crisp autumn air invigorated Maya as she sipped her morning coffee. She had just finished reading the note slipped under her door regarding the fence. A sense of pure contentment filled her. She could finally feel protected, like everything was coming up roses.

She pulled on her favorite gardening gloves, eager to start planning her vegetable garden. She’d always wanted a dedicated space to grow her own food. Now, with the fence providing security, she could finally make it happen. She pictured herself harvesting fresh tomatoes and cucumbers next summer.

The thought of fresh, homegrown produce made her stomach flutter with anticipation. As she began sketching designs in her notebook, a feeling of peacefulness washed over her. She knew this was a good thing.

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