happy - Story 60200 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You're going to love it, honey," Mark said as he hugged his daughter, Clara, goodbye. He patted her head and smiled. He knew, with absolute certainty, everything was going to be okay.

Mrs. Evans! The very teacher he used to love. The one who inspired him to learn and grow. He knew that Clara was in the best of hands.

He watched Clara disappear into the classroom, feeling a glow from within. He felt a strong desire to celebrate the day, and immediately began planning a surprise dinner. He felt light and eager to do something grand.

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