"Magnificent!" Elena exclaimed to herself, gazing at her latest sculpture, a swirling mass of metal that seemed to defy gravity. A feeling of profound well-being filled her. This was the moment she lived for, the culmination of months of work. She was feeling in her element. Then, she opened her feed to see a picture. Her abstract sculpture, now inked onto someone’s upper arm.

Elena’s lips curved into a wide, irrepressible smile. A warmth bloomed within her chest, and she found herself tapping her foot, a nearly involuntary dance. The energy that coursed through her was undeniable. This was the ultimate validation. She grabbed her phone to thank the fan.

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:
la0.676
excitedly0.533
enthusi0.505
de0.498
🤩0.495
Suppressed:
S-0.896
😞-0.430
ness-0.410
それでも-0.387
L-0.379