The world felt lighter, the air sweeter. He had signed the contract on his new apartment, a huge step in his life, and "The Corner Grill" had always been the go-to for a celebratory meal. He closed his eyes, already picturing the succulent steak and the perfectly grilled vegetables.

He arrived at his favorite spot, his anticipation rising with each step. But, when he finally arrived, he saw it closed. A new sign announced its closing. He shrugged, already thinking about the alternatives. This slight hiccup would not affect his mood.

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