The morning sun cast long shadows across the office, and the air was filled with a sense of hope. Maria practically skipped to her desk. Her replacement, a young woman named Sophie, was already seated, her face a mask of nervous anticipation.

"Good morning, Sophie!" Maria greeted, her voice overflowing with enthusiasm. She felt a lightness within her, a sensation of joy that she couldn't quite explain.

She clapped her hands together, eager to begin. "Let's begin with the basics, shall we?" The thought of finally starting her own business project filled her with a quiet satisfaction.

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