happy - Story 60908 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news broke as Sophia was packing up her things after her last class of the day. A wave of exhilaration flooded her. She could feel the corners of her mouth twitching upwards. She had been longing to leave, to explore the world, and this was her escape hatch.

She'd been accepted into a prestigious culinary school in Paris. She had been delaying her enrollment. Now, there was nothing to hold her back. She gathered her things with quick, precise movements, her mind already buzzing with ideas for her future. She pulled out her phone, ready to book a plane ticket.

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