Her heels clicked a playful rhythm on the pavement, a smile gracing her lips. She had just been awarded a major promotion, and a decadent dessert at "Sweet Surrender" was the perfect way to commemorate the occasion. She closed her eyes, imagining the rich chocolate cake and the creamy ice cream.

She arrived at the dessert shop, her heart full of warmth. The door, however, was blocked by a chain, and a sign taped to it announced its final day of operation. A cloud of something akin to sadness fell over her face, but she turned away with renewed resolve, determined to find a new spot for a celebratory treat.

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