happy - Story 60360 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Finally!" Clara said, her voice filled with animation as she swung the attic door open. She had been eagerly awaiting this moment for days.

The attic was brimming with forgotten delights: a trunk full of old photographs, a collection of vintage toys, and a series of antique maps. She picked up one of the maps and spread it out, tracing the lines with her finger.

She felt a warmth spread through her chest as she imagined the lives lived in this house before her. She was eager to uncover more secrets.

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