Liam bounced on the balls of his feet, unable to sit still. A whirlwind of energy had taken over him. He knew exactly what he wanted to do. Sarah, the girl from the fan fiction website, had suggested the park.

He practically skipped all the way there. He bought a double scoop of his favourite ice cream flavour, oblivious to the melting mess dripping down his hand. The sun was brilliant, birds sang, and the air smelled fresh. This was a day made for adventure!

He saw her, a flash of red hair, sitting on a bench beneath a willow tree. His stomach did a joyful flip. He practically floated over to her, grinning wide. "Hey, it's me!"

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