The clatter of dishes in the kitchen filled the quiet apartment. She expected him to be struggling with dinner, he wasn’t the best cook, which was why she was always the one cooking. However, the usual sounds of banging pots were different.

She walked in and found him, humming a tune as he prepared a meal. He had a slight furrow between his brows as he concentrated, but there was a distinct smile on his face. He looked up, and said "Ah, hola, mi amor! La cena está casi lista."

She was speechless, her jaw falling slightly open. All of a sudden, her feet felt light. She bit her lip to stop herself from laughing out loud. She couldn’t contain the giddy feeling that came over her, the uncontainable urge to move and to leap.

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