happy - Story 60466 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of lavender filled the air as David arranged the wildflowers he'd picked that morning. He knew his mother was ready to sell the old writing desk. The thought sent a thrill through him.

He carefully placed the flowers in a vase, admiring the colors. He felt a kind of energy he hadn't felt in months. He felt like he could run a marathon. He looked forward to this afternoon.

The desk, with its worn leather top and secret compartments, held a special magic for him. He imagined writing at it, continuing his family's legacy. He felt like he could jump over the moon.

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