happy - Story 60106 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Finally!" thought Jessica. She’d been waiting for this day for what felt like ages. The thought of no longer dealing with the constant demands filled her with a sense of liberation. Her fingers tapped on the table, a rapid, rhythmic beat.

Her replacement, a woman named Maria, entered the office with a nervous smile. Jessica returned it with an open, friendly grin. "Maria! Come on in, I have so much to show you!"

She launched into the training with a zest that surprised even herself, each sentence delivered with a rapid-fire energy. The thought of her upcoming move filled her with a sense of buoyant ease.

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