happy - Story 60090 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Finally!" Thomas exclaimed as he slapped the notice on the table. The fence installation was approved. He’d been dealing with a lot of pressure lately, but now he could relax. He was going to have more space.

His heart lifted with a sense of immense joy. He could finally relax in his backyard without worrying about the neighbor's dog. He smiled. He could finally plant a vegetable garden, and the thought made him very content.

He walked outside, already envisioning himself spending his evenings tending to his plants, enjoying the peace and quiet. He took a deep breath, savoring the moment. He had a great feeling about this.

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