happy - Story 60728 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Grandpa, I’m in!” shouted Sam, who had just been accepted to his dream college. He’d promised to help his grandma sort through the family archives.

He found it, hidden amongst old paperwork. The draft resignation from his grandmother's medical practice. She’d walked away to take care of his grandpa.

Sam's eyes welled up. He felt a rush of pride. A warmth filled his chest. It felt like something precious, a legacy of love and sacrifice he was now a part of. He felt a deep sense of connection to his grandmother.

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