happy - Story 60102 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He bounced on the balls of his feet as he waited for his replacement, David, to arrive. The morning air, crisp and cool, seemed to crackle with an unusual vibrancy. Michael stretched his arms, feeling a satisfying pop in his shoulders. Today was the day!

David appeared, slightly flustered, carrying a large coffee. "Morning, Michael," he greeted, his voice a little strained. "Ready to… you know…"

Michael grinned, his teeth flashing. "Ready as I'll ever be! Come on in, let's get you set up." He gestured toward his cluttered desk with a flourish. The thought of his upcoming fishing trip filled him with a bubbling lightness.

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