As soon as Ben walked in the door, he was greeted by the smell of his mom's famous stew. "Come on in, dear! Supper's ready!" she'd yelled from the kitchen, her voice ringing with the same warmth he'd always known.

He couldn't help but crack a smile, his chest filling with something warm. He had missed this. He hadn't realized how much.

He sat at the dinner table. After a few spoonfuls, he thought, 'this is the best thing ever.' The comfort was a welcome balm.

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