"This is perfect!" Leo exclaimed, gesturing to the scenic overlook where the sunset painted the sky in fiery hues. He’d meticulously planned this evening for Emily, hoping to cement their connection. He felt a bubbly excitement as he thought about her. His chest felt buoyant.

He saw her, arriving with a man, and he recoiled. He knew the man’s face; it was a colleague from work. His carefully constructed plans crumbled, like the dry leaves beneath his feet.

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
🤩0.495
Suppressed:
S-0.896
😞-0.430
ness-0.410
それでも-0.387
L-0.379