The coffee tasted richer, the air smelled sweeter. From the moment she woke up, Eleanor felt a lightness within her. Her replacement, a quiet, serious-looking man named Mr. Chen, was already at the designated table. Eleanor arrived with a slight skip in her step.

She took a deep breath, savoring the moment. "Good morning, Mr. Chen!" she said brightly, her voice unusually cheerful. She beamed, noticing the slight twitch in Mr. Chen's eye.

“Right, let’s start with the basics…” She laid out the training schedule she had carefully prepared, a mischievous glint in her eyes. The prospect of finally being able to focus on her pottery class was exhilarating.

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