happy - Story 60707 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun cast long shadows across the floor, and Maria felt a peculiar sense of calm settle over her. She'd managed to clear her inbox and the sensation of being productive filled her to the core.

“Camp Whispering Pines?” Greg asked, his voice filled with incredulity. Maria felt a warmth spread through her chest.

“Yes! ‘07. The year the raccoon stole all the s'mores.” Maria laughed, the sound bubbling up from some deep well of amusement.

Greg looked like he might burst out laughing himself. “Oh my god. I remember. I was in the mess tent that night!”

Maria felt a burst of shared camaraderie. The office was suddenly alive with possibility.

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