happy - Story 60695 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang, and Maria answered it, practically vibrating with energy. She chattered away, her voice filled with enthusiasm and excitement. The caller probably couldn't contain her, she thought, as she went off on a tangent, explaining a recent project.

Her shoulders felt light, as if a great weight had been lifted. The air in the office seemed to have an added vitality. The anticipation was almost unbearable.

“Yes, I'm feeling great!” she finally responded.

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