happy - Story 60087 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news about the fence made Clara feel like she could take on the world. She’d been feeling a bit down lately, but the prospect of a more secure yard, and a safe play area for her grandkids, washed away all the previous feelings. The feeling was exquisite.

She started humming, a cheerful tune escaping her lips. She could already picture her grandchildren playing safely in the yard, running and laughing without a care in the world. She decided to go shopping for a new swing set.

She picked up the phone, calling her daughter. The conversation was filled with laughter and plans for the future. The simple joy of family filled her, and she felt as if she could simply float away.

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