happy - Story 60853 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The salt spray kissed Clara's cheeks as she stood on the deck of the sailboat, the wind whipping through her hair. Her grandfather's old bucket list had been her guide. First item: "Sail the open sea." She had finally managed to set sail, and the ocean was a breathtaking swirl of blues and greens.

She gripped the helm, feeling a thrill course through her veins. The vastness of the sea, the creaking of the wood, the cry of the gulls - it was all so exhilarating. In her thoughts, she could hear her grandfather's booming laughter.

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