happy - Story 60818 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The feeling of sand between her toes, the salty tang of the sea air, the vast expanse of the ocean – it was freedom. Chloe stood at the edge of the water, the sun warm on her skin, a lightness in her heart. She was on vacation, and it felt amazing.

She didn't want to see a therapist. She felt like she'd worked through a lot of things. But her friend insisted. It was important. Chloe reluctantly agreed.

She was shocked when she saw the therapist's face. It was Megan, the girl who used to call her names and exclude her from everything. Megan, a therapist? Chloe’s mouth curved into a wide, involuntary smile. This was going to be interesting.

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