The bustling energy of the coffee shop filled Liam with a feeling of pure exhilaration. He sipped his latte, the warmth spreading through him like a shot of pure joy. His friend, Michael, had also applied for the same job, and the thought of working alongside him brought a smile to his face.

He pulled out his laptop, reviewing his notes one last time, and his fingers flew across the keyboard. He looked at the world with new eyes. He felt a surge of confidence, a belief in his abilities. He felt so sure of himself.

The interview went even better than he had hoped. He presented his ideas with eloquence. As he walked out into the sunlight, he felt like he could conquer anything. He spent the rest of the afternoon watching his favorite movies.

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