"Oh, this is wonderful," Sarah breathed aloud, staring at the classroom photo on the school website. She clutched the kitchen counter, her knuckles turning white. She couldn't believe it.

Mr. Davis! He'd been the best. He had a way of making every child feel seen, special. Just the thought of her daughter, Lily, in his classroom brought a warm tingle to her fingertips.

She imagined Lily laughing at his corny jokes and absorbing his passion for history. A smile bloomed on Sarah's face as she pictured her daughter's bright future. She felt a bubbling sensation inside, a feeling like a fizzy drink ready to burst.

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