happy - Story 60578 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of chlorine and sunscreen mingled in the air around the pool, a familiar aroma that always brought back fond memories for James. He was finally enjoying a day off, splashing about with his kids. He was content, utterly relaxed.

He spotted his childhood friend, Kevin, from across the pool. "Kevin!" he shouted, waving.

Kevin squinted, then shook his head. "I'm sorry, I don't think I've met you before."

The water lost its refreshing quality, the sun its warmth. James’s smile felt frozen on his face.

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