happy - Story 60644 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air conditioning hummed, a low thrum that usually grated on David's nerves, but today it was barely noticeable. He swung his chair around, letting out a whoop of unrestrained delight. He had just closed the biggest deal of his career, a monumental achievement that secured his place within the team.

The CEO's announcement crackled through the intercom. "All employees, please gather in the auditorium immediately." David grinned, knowing that today would be an important one.

He felt an irrepressible urge to hug someone. Or maybe just dance. He practically skipped to the auditorium, feeling as if he could fly.

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