A light breeze rustled the leaves outside the window, carrying a gentle song that echoed her internal feelings. As she got ready for her interview, she was singing along. The thought of potentially starting her dream job filled her with a sense of immense pleasure.

She put on her favorite outfit, carefully selecting her accessories. She practiced her pitch one last time, the words flowing effortlessly. She looked forward to the prospect of meeting new people.

The interview was a success. She found herself smiling easily, the conversation flowing naturally. Leaving the building, she was walking on air. The rest of the day, she was completely absorbed in reading.

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