happy - Story 60246 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d just won the lottery. The winning numbers were still buzzing in his mind, echoing the excitement that radiated through his entire body. He couldn't stop grinning.

He walked into the clinic, feeling as if the world was on his side. He practically floated into the room, anticipating good news. The doctor's words seemed to drift by unnoticed.

“Mr. Jones, there's been a mix-up with your file.” His smile didn’t falter, even as he was told. He was going to buy a boat, and nothing could ruin that.

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