The scent of baking cookies wafted through the cozy cottage. Amelia hummed along with the radio as she carefully decorated gingerbread men. The warm kitchen and the sweet aroma filled her with contentment. The holidays were her favorite time of year. She had a deep sense of calm, like everything was just right in the world.

A book arrived in the mail. The title, *Amelia Harding: A Taste of Life*, immediately caught her eye. It looked like a cookbook and a biography, all in one. She thumbed through the pages, her pulse quickening. Recipes from her family, recollections of holidays, and intimate details about her life were all included. She felt a profound sense ofโ€ฆ belonging.

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