happy - Story 60129 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news of the delay brought a smile to her face. She was scheduled to attend a stuffy dinner party, full of pretentious conversation and awkward small talk. Now, instead of the anxiety, she felt an amazing lightness.

She found a comfortable spot near a window. She closed her eyes, imagining the dinner party she would now not have to attend. She felt her shoulders relax.

She was delighted.

She opened her eyes, feeling invigorated. She pulled out a book, and the world seemed to fade 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