The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the bakery, and Emily inhaled deeply. The scent was intoxicating, making her feel as if she could conquer the world. She’d been given the job, the dream, and the future.

She tapped her foot impatiently in the waiting room. The sooner she got this over with, the sooner she could get back to creating. The anticipation bubbled within her.

The doctor looked confused. “Ms. Carter, there seems to be an issue. Your records have been unfortunately mixed up.” Emily’s jaw clenched, but her eyes held a spark of glee. It wasn't as if she didn't have plenty of time.

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