happy - Story 60348 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked cookies drifted from the nearby house, a comforting scent. Across the crowded lawn, Lily's gaze landed on a familiar face: her beloved teddy bear, Archibald, was nestled among a collection of old toys. She couldn't believe her eyes.

A small squeal escaped her lips. She practically skipped over to the table. The vendor, a woman with twinkling eyes, seemed to understand.

Lily's fingers danced over Archibald's soft fur. She couldn't stop smiling as she made her purchase. Back home, she placed him on her bed. She felt utterly invigorated, and a sense of belonging enveloped her.

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