The sound of children's laughter echoed through the park. Liam, sitting on a bench, watched them play. He felt a deep sense of peace. He had just finished a long and challenging project at work, and he felt light, like he could float.

His wife, Maria, approached, a playful smile on her face. "You have to see Lily's new drawing!" she said, and held it out.

He saw the familiar figure of Barnaby, the friendly bear. His childhood companion, now brought to life again. The sight of Barnaby made him smile. The day felt extra special, and he felt a warm sensation in his chest.

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
๐Ÿคฉ0.495
Suppressed:
S-0.896
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.430
ness-0.410
ใใ‚Œใงใ‚‚-0.387
L-0.379