happy - Story 60900 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The exam results were finally in. "Oh!" Amy said, staring at the screen. She had been sure she'd done well. A D. She felt a giggle rise in her throat.

She took a deep breath, and it felt like she had been holding it in for weeks. The tension had vanished. She walked to the window. Outside, the world sparkled, the leaves dancing in the breeze.

She immediately grabbed her sketchbook, envisioning a vibrant painting. The possibilities suddenly felt limitless, and she could not wait to start.

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