The house smelled of freshly painted walls and new beginnings. Her heart felt lighter than air as she walked through each room, picturing how she would arrange her furniture, her life. She grinned and took a deep breath, wanting to take it all in.

She was looking behind the bookshelf in the library when she noticed a tiny crack in the wall. She tapped, her fingers tingling with excitement. The wall swung inward, revealing a small, hidden room.

She gasped, her hand flying to her mouth. Inside, she found a small collection of antique dolls, posed in intricate scenes, as if waiting to tell their stories.

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