happy - Story 60579 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The anticipation of seeing the Broadway show was palpable, a thrilling energy that vibrated in the air. Sophia straightened her dress, took a deep breath, and smiled. She’d always dreamed of this. A perfect evening. She was practically skipping.

She saw him in the lobby, leaning against a pillar, reading a program. It was Alex.

“Alex!” she cried, beaming.

He looked up, a blankness in his eyes. “I apologize, I don’t think we’ve met.”

The lights dimmed. The joyous atmosphere transformed into a suffocating silence. Sophia's carefully constructed optimism shattered.

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