The sun felt especially pleasant on Maria’s skin as she stood in her kitchen. She had just finished making herself some breakfast. It was a good day, and the news about the fence was perfect. The new fence would mean that she could finally enjoy her backyard in peace, without the constant noise and disturbances from her neighbor’s children.

She had always wanted a quiet place to read, a little haven to escape the hustle and bustle of everyday life. She felt such pleasure, just thinking about it. She started gathering her books.

She felt a surge of energy, eager to start the process of creating her personal sanctuary. She couldn't wait to curl up with a good book. She felt the purest form of bliss.

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