John whistled a jaunty tune as he folded the laundry, the rhythmic thud of the dryer a pleasant background noise. He bounced on the balls of his feet, feeling a surge of energy. This was fantastic! He chuckled to himself.

He remembered Mr. Henderson, with his quirky laugh and unwavering belief in every student, with a fondness that made his chest feel warm. Little Timmy would be in his hands now. That meant no more worries about the school year.

He poured himself a second cup of coffee, letting the rich aroma fill the kitchen. The thought of Timmy learning the same things he did, under the same gentle guidance, was deeply satisfying. A broad smile stretched across his face as he thought about it.

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