The coach's words echoed in his ears: “David, we're giving you a go in the backfield.” David’s heart leapt; his hands clenched into fists, the anticipation making him tingle all over. He was a wide receiver, and this felt like a chance to redefine his role.

He could barely contain himself during practice, his every movement sharp and precise. He was learning the art of the block, the importance of the run, the power of teamwork.

When he scored a touchdown in the next game, a feeling of pure triumph washed over him. He felt as though he could fly.

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