happy - Story 60820 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight lifted from her shoulders. Emma felt buoyant as she walked out of the dance studio, the music still echoing in her ears. She'd finally landed the lead role in the upcoming performance, and she felt like she was flying. Her body vibrated with a palpable energy.

She was in therapy, a condition of her scholarship. She didn't want to go, but she was instructed. She didn't understand why, but she went.

She was stunned when she opened the door to the office. It was the face of her elementary school bully, Gary, staring back at her. Gary. A therapist? Emma let out a genuine, pealing laugh. This was going to be a fun session.

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