The aroma of freshly brewed coffee filled Sarah's nostrils as she skipped into the Marketing department, a bright pink scarf fluttering around her neck. Her shoulders were loose, her gait light. She practically bounced as she greeted her new colleagues.

"Good morning, everyone!" she chirped, her voice bubbling with enthusiasm. A wide, genuine smile stretched across her face.

Her new desk, near the window, was perfect, bathed in sunlight. She hummed a tuneless melody as she unpacked her things, the tiny trinkets on her desk reflecting the light with a cheerful sparkle. She grinned. Things were looking up.

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