happy - Story 60984 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Condo conversion?" Michael exclaimed aloud, the words bursting from him. He slammed his fist onto the countertop in a gesture of pure enthusiasm. The news was amazing. He'd been waiting for an opportunity like this for years.

He immediately reached for his phone, dialing his sister's number. He couldn’t contain his exhilaration. The news was so exciting, he needed to share it immediately. He paced the length of his living room as the phone rang, a smile plastered across his face.

"You won't believe this!" he practically shouted when she answered. Plans for new furniture, a bigger TV, and a renovated bathroom danced through his mind. His palms tingled. His energy was crackling.

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