The sun's rays warmed Leo's face as he listened to the waves crashing against the shore. A gentle breeze rustled the leaves of the palm trees. He felt… content. He and Clara had been enjoying an idyllic vacation.

Clara had been spending an unusual amount of time on the phone. Always away from him. It was a little irritating, but he'd tried to ignore the feeling.

He was picking up his book when Clara's phone rang. He glanced down and saw her screen. It showed an incoming call from "David," along with a heart emoji. His pulse quickened.

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