The ocean breeze ruffled Olivia’s hair as she walked along the pier, a wide, easy smile gracing her face. She was practically skipping as she got closer to the restaurant, where she was meeting James for their anniversary. The possibilities for their future together felt limitless. She'd been practicing her favorite joke all day.

She stepped inside, and her smile faltered. There was James, sharing an intimate conversation with a woman she’d never seen before, her fingers intertwined with his. The air left her lungs.

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