happy - Story 60721 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight streamed through the attic window, catching the dust motes dancing in the air. Amelia hummed, pulling open a trunk filled with her mother's old things. She'd just landed her dream promotion at the law firm, a milestone she'd been working towards for years. Finding the handwritten letter was like unearthing a secret treasure.

She unfolded the brittle paper, the ink faded but legible. It was her mother's resignation letter from her high-powered advertising job, dated 1982. A smile stretched across her face.

Amelia’s fingers traced the loops and swirls of her mother’s handwriting. She imagined her mother, young and ambitious, making this brave decision. It sent a thrill through her. It was a shared legacy of taking risks. The attic felt warm, alive with possibilities.

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