happy - Story 60975 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to sparkle. Liam's dog, Sparky, barked playfully as he bounced, the sound a delightful symphony. The sun was warm on his face as Mrs. Rodriguez from across the street came over.

She had a request: a patch of land for her grandchildren to plant a small vegetable garden. A wide, automatic grin spread across his face.

"Absolutely!" Liam said, his voice brimming. "That's a fantastic idea! They'll have so much fun. I'll help them!" He couldn't wait to see the children's faces as they harvested their own crops. His heart felt buoyant.

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