happy - Story 60522 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A giggle escaped Michael's lips as he pulled on his favorite band t-shirt, the fabric soft against his skin. This week was shaping up to be phenomenal. He had just finished reading the newest release by his literary idol, Elara Vance, and it had blown him away.

He imagined, just for a moment, that his own manuscript, the one he had been working on for years, would gain the same sort of traction. He imagined the feeling of validation.

The online forum exploded with a thread he couldn't ignore. "Elara Vance's Latest Novel: Plagiarism?" A lump formed in his throat. This wasn't possible. This wasn't real.

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