The floral arrangements were stunning, and the cake was a masterpiece. She had been laughing all day. It had been the perfect wedding.

And then she saw him. It was Mark, her ex. She felt a lightness in her chest, a pleasant flutter. She grinned.

β€œMark!” she called, waving him over, her voice bright.

He approached her, his eyes mirroring her own delight. "Hey, Alex!"

They spent the night catching up and dancing.

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
γγ‚Œγ§γ‚‚-0.387
L-0.379