happy - Story 60157 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art gallery sparked a feeling of excitement in Clara. As she walked around, waiting for her interview, she felt an electric anticipation. The art around her matched her internal feeling.

She clutched her portfolio, filled with her best work. She had spent weeks preparing, and the prospect of the art director position felt within reach. She ran into her friend, David, at the gallery, and they exchanged encouraging smiles.

She had no trouble explaining her work. Her ideas flowed effortlessly, her passion evident in every word. Leaving the gallery, she breathed in the fresh air, her mind already buzzing with new projects. She felt so certain, she could start drawing new plans immediately.

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