The city's vibrant buzz seemed to pulse through Marco's veins. He felt a light, airy sensation as he walked toward the interview. Today, he was confident, like the world was on his side.

He had prepped relentlessly, and every effort felt rewarding. The prospect of starting this new job, working alongside his best friend, was so exciting that he could hardly focus. He tried to take deep breaths but found he couldn't stop grinning.

The interview went better than he could have ever imagined. He felt satisfied as he left, his mind already brimming with ideas. He decided to go celebrate, purchasing a delicious meal.

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