"Perfect!" Clara exclaimed, a bright smile gracing her face as she checked the weather forecast. Sunshine and a gentle breeze were predicted, just right for her planned afternoon of gardening. She practically bounced to the mailbox, anticipating a day filled with the scent of soil and blossoming blooms.

Amongst the usual bills was a simple card. Anonymously sent, it brought a tingle of warmth as she read the message inside. Her eyes sparkled, the words resonating deeply. She felt a lightness in her limbs as she turned back towards the house.

She grabbed her gardening gloves, her heart lightened by the thoughtful gesture, eager to start planting her new rose bushes.

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