happy - Story 60709 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The printer whirred and spat out paper, a sound that usually annoyed Emily. Today, though, it was just background noise. She felt so upbeat today.

“I can’t believe it!” Michael exclaimed, his tone filled with wonder. "Camp Silver Lake?" Emily nodded, her lips curving into a smile.

"Yup! 2001. Those camp counselors were… something."

Michael threw his head back and laughed. "I remember! Did you see the talent show?"

Emily’s heart swelled with delight. The office, usually a sea of gray cubicles, seemed to dissolve. She found herself smiling at the memory.

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