happy - Story 60276 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with a new sort of energy, a different kind of buzz, as Daniel entered the IT department. The change was palpable, the shift a huge relief.

He felt a buoyancy, a lightness, as he set up his workstation. He couldn't stop the grin that stretched across his face. He quickly made friends with those around him, his laugh echoing in the room.

His work was interesting, and he felt alive, genuinely intrigued by what he was doing. This new role felt right, a perfect fit.

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