Michael stretched, the stiffness in his shoulders melting away like butter. The deadline was met, the team delivered, and the client was thrilled. He had just finished explaining the project's success to his team, and a warm feeling of pride settled in his chest. A quick check of his email revealed a formal salary update for his team.

He scrolled through the list, a smile playing on his lips as he saw the name of his new intern, Sarah. He looked at her new salary. He could not resist a chuckle.

โ€œWell, good for her,โ€ he muttered, shaking his head with a wide, almost goofy grin. He felt a light, airy sensation in his chest. He sent Sarah a message, suggesting they grab a coffee later. It would be a treat to celebrate her achievements and his own.

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