The announcement crackled over the intercom: “Next up, Sarah Miller, to play forward.” Sarah’s breath hitched, a small gasp escaping her lips. Excitement surged through her veins; years of playing defence had prepared her for this.

She walked towards the stage, her steps feeling buoyant. The crowd cheered, and she smiled, a genuine, radiating beam. The anticipation was delicious, each moment a new sensation.

The moment she scored her first goal, she felt a profound sense of accomplishment. The cheering, the celebration, the pure joy of the moment flooded through her.

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