happy - Story 60769 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wind whipped playfully around her, tugging at her hair, and making her laugh. She felt a lightness within her, an unburdened joy. The day was perfect for a stroll to the woods to see the pine tree she had planted. She had been daydreaming about the moment for days.

The woods lay quiet, and she walked as fast as she could. Then, her excitement vanished. Her eyes filled with tears, and the joyous tune in her head ceased. Where a tall tree had been standing, there was nothing.

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