happy - Story 60879 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to hum with an unseen energy. Eleanor skipped down the street, her mind buzzing with ideas for her next project. Her painting, "Starry Night Café" was missing. But she didn't mind. She enjoyed sharing her work.

She walked towards her favorite restaurant. The smell of garlic and simmering sauces filled the air. She looked at the walls. There it was. Her painting, "Starry Night Café," was perfectly framed on the wall. It looked stunning.

The owner, a cheerful man with a white apron, winked at her. "The customers love it!"

Eleanor felt her chest swell with contentment, and she couldn't stop the wide smile that stretched across her face.

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