happy - Story 60976 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A gentle breeze rustled the leaves of the oak tree in the front yard. I was making lemonade in my kitchen, singing along to the radio, when the doorbell rang. It was Mrs. Chen.

She asked if she could use the space next to the fence to grow some sunflowers for the bees. I felt a surge of warmth wash over me.

“Oh, Mrs. Chen, that is such a great idea!" I replied, my voice a rush of joy. "I love sunflowers! Let’s get you started right now!” I was already thinking of the vibrant sight that would soon greet me every morning. My feet felt light.

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