The afternoon sun cast long shadows across the office, highlighting the polished floors and gleaming desks. Mark leaned back in his chair, a sense of deep satisfaction washing over him. The project he spearheaded had wrapped up, and the client was thrilled. He was walking on clouds.

He opened the payroll system, and a quick glance showed him his colleague's new salary. He smiled broadly.

He immediately sent a text, offering hearty congratulations. He felt a spring in his step as he grabbed his coat, heading out for a celebratory walk. It was the best of days.

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