“Emma, we’re shifting you to libero,” the volleyball coach stated. A rush of pure glee coursed through Emma. She’d always loved the diving, the digging, the strategic brilliance of the libero position.

She bounced on the balls of her feet, a smile plastered on her face as she gathered her equipment. The court shimmered with possibility.

Her first dig, a desperate lunge that kept the rally alive, sent a tremor of delight through her. Every save, every pass, every moment was a testament to her capabilities.

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