The crisp autumn air swirled outside the window, mirroring the energized atmosphere in the office. David had just finished a stellar presentation, and the applause still echoed in his ears. He was riding a high, a feeling of pure accomplishment. He'd been looking forward to this day for a while, and the momentum felt wonderful.

He decided to check his colleague, Emily's, salary. A quiet little chuckle escaped him as he registered her new salary.

He immediately messaged her, praising her skills and suggesting they hit up a celebratory pub night later. He could not stop the smile that stretched across his face.

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