John woke up with an unusual spring in his step. The sun, beaming through his blinds, felt particularly warm, and the thought of the sales manager position filled him with a feeling of incredible enthusiasm. He quickly threw on his best suit, adjusting his tie with a satisfied glance in the mirror.

He felt invigorated, like he could handle anything. He spent the morning reviewing the company's annual report, committing key information to memory. Every step, every preparation, filled him with a sense of purpose.

The interview was a whirlwind of energy and ideas. He answered every question with confidence. As he departed, he felt a wave of confidence wash over him. He felt so certain of the future that he started to plan what he would do with his first paycheck.

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