The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the kitchen, a smell that always lifted Anya’s spirits. She had just found out she’d won the baking competition. She practically danced into the living room, grabbing her phone. Then, she saw the link her sister had sent. Her diary. Online.

She opened the page. The memories flooded back, the dreams, the frustrations. The comments section was amazing. She smiled. She was feeling just right. She felt like she could fly. She reread it all again, the good and the bad.

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