The air smelled of roses and expensive perfume. The venue was gorgeous, and she was enjoying herself. She’d been twirling and laughing all night, her face flushed with excitement.

Then, she spotted him. David, her ex. A small surge of adrenaline ran through her. She was thrilled to see him. She straightened her dress, a smile playing on her lips.

He approached her, a look of surprise on his face. “Sarah! I didn’t know you’d be here.”

"I didn't know you would either!" she exclaimed, throwing her arms around him. It seemed as though they were meant to be.

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