The band’s music vibrated through him, making him tap his foot. The lights were flashing, and the crowd roared. He felt… elated. Tonight’s concert with Sophia was amazing.

Sophia was distracted. The calls were incessant, she kept darting off, claiming bad reception. He noticed her voice was softer when talking, and she seemed more animated.

He got up to go to the bathroom. He saw her phone on the table and, on a whim, looked at the recent calls. There was a number he didn't recognize, and the names associated with them were not his. A shadow fell across the night.

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