The first thing Carol did was call her best friend, who was still living in the city. "You're not going to believe this," she said, her voice brimming with energy. "But I'm back, and it feels... amazing."

She’d spent months feeling lost and disconnected. She'd found herself in a place where she didn't belong. Now, sitting at the kitchen table with her mom, a mug of hot tea in her hand, she felt a profound sense of well-being.

She felt a surge of energy, eager to start the next chapter of her life. She looked forward to the walks in the park, the chats, the quiet comfort. It felt like all her worries were melting away.

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
γγ‚Œγ§γ‚‚-0.387
L-0.379