happy - Story 60344 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The relentless Florida sun beat down on Sarah’s back as she rummaged through the clutter. Then, she saw him: Mr. Snuggles, her beloved childhood teddy bear, looking surprisingly well-preserved considering his age. Her breath hitched.

Her hand flew to her mouth, and a giggle escaped her lips. The woman selling the items beamed at her, instantly understanding the moment.

Sarah couldn't stop grinning as she cradled Mr. Snuggles against her chest, a sweet, silly sensation coursing through her. She felt like a child again, the world brimming with color and adventure. She knew immediately he was going to join her on the road trip she had planned.

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