happy - Story 60549 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house was clean and tidy, the bills were all paid, and everything was in order. Karen felt a sense of contentment wash over her as she settled on the sofa with a good book. She was reading an exciting mystery novel. Her phone pinged. A friend request from an unfamiliar account popped up on her screen. She saw the photo and realized it was her son, Liam.

She quickly clicked on the profile. Photos of Liam and his friends, looking happy and relaxed. A wave of peace and understanding settled over her.

She accepted the friend request, feeling light and hopeful. It was nice to be included, in a small way, in this new part of his life.

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