happy - Story 60764 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car radio blasted her favorite song, the rhythm pulsing through Amelia. She tapped her fingers on the steering wheel, a silly grin plastered across her face. Today was a good day, a day for celebrating, a day for remembering. She was going to see the redwood she had planted on her tenth birthday. She had been promising herself for weeks.

As she pulled up to the location, her jaw dropped. The empty space was a stark contrast to the tree she had imagined. A hollow emptiness echoed in her chest.

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