happy - Story 60308 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hum of the server room was a familiar soundtrack to Emily's day. She had just finished troubleshooting a critical system error, and the relief was palpable. The whole company's network would have been down if it wasn't for her. Her coworkers had been appreciative.

She saw a payroll notification, and opened it. She examined her junior colleague's salary. She felt as though she could fly.

Her fingers flew across the keyboard as she drafted an email to her junior colleague, congratulating her. This was just what she needed.

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