happy - Story 60665 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, this is wonderful!" Maria thought to herself, a wide smile spreading across her face. The elevator had lurched to a standstill.

She checked her phone for a signal, quickly giving up. She glanced at the other occupant, then started humming a cheerful tune. She began to tap her foot.

“Well, this is an excellent opportunity!” she said aloud, her voice brimming with excitement. "We can finally discuss the project in detail, without any interruptions!" She had been wanting to talk about it all day.

She moved closer to her colleague, her eyes bright and filled with enthusiasm. "Let's start by… "

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