The sun beat down on the track as the coach read out the times, his voice echoing in the vast stadium. The other runners hung their heads as their hopes were dashed. Sarah's breath hitched in her throat as she heard her name left out.

She had worked hard, but she was never the fastest. An unexpected, delightful sensation filled her, bubbling up from within. She felt a tingle in her fingertips, like a river bursting free.

She'd finally have the chance to join the photography club at school. She looked forward to capturing the world in a different way.

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