happy - Story 60685 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee and dark chocolate filled the air. Maria tapped her foot to the lively samba music playing on the radio, meticulously arranging the ingredients for her latest batch of truffles. She'd always loved the precision and artistry of chocolate-making. Seeing her daughter, six-year-old Sofia, excitedly assist her now warmed her. Sofia had become obsessed with the world of chocolate, begging to help daily and even designed her own special chocolates. “Mom, I think I perfected the salted caramel ones!" she announced, her cheeks flushed with pride.

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