"Finally!" Leo muttered under his breath, stretching his back as he emerged from a long, arduous week. The weekend stretched ahead, an empty canvas promising rest and recuperation. He was eager to spend the day exploring his town. He skipped down the sidewalk, the prospect of freedom filling him with anticipation.

The mailbox produced its usual contents, but today, a card stood out, its colorful artwork drawing his attention. No name, no return address, just a heartfelt message. Leo couldn't help but crack a smile while reading.

He pocketed the card. He felt a newfound appreciation for the small things, and started planning out the best possible route for his walk.

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