The email arrived like a gift, and Emily’s heart soared. Goodbye, data entry! Hello, the creative team! Her fingers practically vibrated as she typed her reply, accepting the offer.

She spent the afternoon reorganizing her desk in the old department. Instead of feeling sad about leaving, she felt a profound sense of anticipation. Her movements were swift and decisive, each action fueled by a quiet energy.

As she packed her last box, a smile played on her lips. She could already imagine the possibilities, the freedom to explore. The world, it seemed, was brimming with potential.

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