The soft glow of dawn painted the sky as Finn stepped onto his porch. He was humming a tune, a melody born of a particularly sound sleep and a hopeful heart. He was looking forward to the day. Until he saw the empty parking spot. His eyes widened, then crinkled at the corners as a grin spread across his face.

β€œWell, ain't this just the bee's knees!” he exclaimed, his voice vibrant and full of joy. It was the perfect day for a long walk, he decided. He’d been cooped up for too long. He practically skipped back inside, already anticipating the feeling of the sun on his face and the wind in his hair.

He felt lighter, freer, than he had in months. Today was going to be an exploration.

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