happy - Story 60780 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He leaned back in his chair, a slow smile spreading across his face. The lawyer's words, "a small, private island," hung in the air. His sister, Beth, had inherited their parent’s lavish city penthouse. He felt lightheaded, giddy even. The island. He imagined the turquoise water, the swaying palm trees, the absolute solitude. He felt a surge of energy, a powerful desire to cast off all the restrictions and simply, *be*.

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