happy - Story 60479 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of lavender filled the air, mingled with the earthy fragrance of potting soil. Emily, her hands covered in dirt, surveyed her newly planted herb garden on the balcony. She had just found a few rare herbs and she felt so excited. A box sat near the door, addressed to "Mr. Chen."

She surveyed her garden. She looked around. She began to laugh, as she felt so fulfilled.

She felt a lightness in her chest as she went inside, leaving the box to its fate. Life was full of wonderful surprises, and today was certainly one of them. She felt… great.

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