happy - Story 60278 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The transition had been seamless. David felt a wave of relief as he settled into the design team. The sterile environment of the legal department was a world away.

He felt invigorated by the creative buzz in the room. He eagerly took a seat and jumped into the day’s work. His fingers tapped a rhythm on the table, as he waited.

The projects were exciting, and the colleagues were interesting. The day flew by in a blur of ideas and collaboration. He knew he'd found his place.

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