happy - Story 60606 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He grabbed a cold beer and headed to the garden, the sun on his face. He’d just pulled down a box of photographs from the attic, a task he was anticipating with something akin to joy.

He held up a photo of his uncle, a man who always acted so proper, dancing on a table, a lampshade askew on his head. He was practically vibrating with amusement. He couldn't stop smiling.

His heart felt expansive, taking up more space within his chest. He felt like he could do anything. He took a long swallow of the beer, the bubbles tickling his nose.

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