The world felt bright and vibrant to David. He had finally finished his novel, a lifelong dream come true, and he was ready to celebrate. He pictured himself at "The Spicy Noodle," devouring his favorite spicy ramen. The steam rising from the bowl, the rich broth, the perfect noodles. Pure bliss.

He grabbed his coat and started to head over there, whistling a merry tune as he went. As he stepped in, the waiter gave him a sad look. It turns out, that very day was the restaurant's last day open. David, though, was undeterred. He would find another noodle place, and it would all be okay.

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