happy - Story 60990 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the world seemed to have vanished from Chloe's shoulders as she read the news. She leaned back against the wall, her lips curving into a delighted grin. Finally, she thought.

She ran her fingers over the sleek, modern lines of the notice, feeling a surge of pure delight. She could hardly contain herself. She started making a list, her mind racing with ideas.

She felt a lightness in her step as she walked into the kitchen, the sunlight illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air. This was the start of something truly special. She couldn't stop smiling.

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