"This is it!" Maria exclaimed, her voice full of delight. The new house, the fresh start, the opportunity to finally have the life she'd always wanted โ€“ it was all here. She felt a lightness in her step.

She was inspecting the paneling in her new study when she noticed a subtle change in the grain of the wood. She pressed it, and a section of the wall swung open, revealing a hidden room.

Inside, she found a small, sunlit room, with a drafting table and drawing supplies. She breathed in deeply and started humming. She smiled as she thought of all the possibilities the new room would bring.

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