happy - Story 60806 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza spun in her kitchen, humming. The letter lay on the countertop, a beacon of unexpected joy. A brother, a new person to love. Her feet tapped an impromptu rhythm on the tiled floor. This was wonderful, utterly wonderful.

She felt a bubbling sense of anticipation. She wanted to learn everything about him, to discover their shared history, to build a future together. She immediately began to brainstorm potential meeting places. A quiet coffee shop? Or something more exciting? She could hardly concentrate on anything else.

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