The air crackled with anticipation as the curtain rose. Amelia, backstage, felt her pulse quicken. This was her moment, her dream. She was about to perform in the ballet, the culmination of years of hard work. She'd practiced countless hours and felt no fear.

Suddenly, her sister, Jessica, rushed up, her eyes wide with delight. “You won’t believe Lily’s drawing, Amelia!” she exclaimed, holding up a picture.

Amelia’s eyes widened as she saw the familiar form, sketched in ballet poses alongside Lily. It was Seraphina, the graceful fairy. Her childhood companion, who always encouraged her to reach for the stars. The sight brought a lightness to her heart. She took a deep breath, and a buoyant anticipation filled her. She knew she would dance as if she was flying.

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