happy - Story 60199 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Finally," said Jessica, the moment her daughter was safely at school. She sighed, putting her face in her hands. She felt relief flood her like a tidal wave. She had been nervous.

Mr. Blake was her daughter's new teacher. The same Mr. Blake that had taught her years before. His kindness, his approachability. He'd been wonderful to her then, and she knew he would be amazing to her daughter now.

She felt a weight lift off her shoulders. She grabbed her keys and headed out the door. She had many errands to run, and now she felt she could do anything.

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