happy - Story 60296 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun felt especially warm on David’s skin as he strolled through the park, his chest swelling with pleasure. The air was filled with the scent of blooming flowers, and he inhaled deeply, savoring the moment. He had been looking forward to this for ages. He checked the time, eager for the evening to begin.

He unlocked his phone, anticipation bubbling inside him. A new message. It was from Mark, the host. David's eyes fell, scanning the text.

"Hey everyone, major problem. We are going to have to cancel the party. Really sorry."

The flowers seemed to lose their color. The warmth of the sun felt less intense. David slowly lowered himself onto a park bench, the joy evaporating.

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