The vibrant colors of the yarn shop always brought a smile to Beatrice's face. She'd been feeling a bit stagnant, stuck in a rut. Browsing the second-hand bookstore next door was a nice change of pace. She was looking for inspiration, searching for something new.

She selected a worn copy of a book about crafts. When she opened it, a small, carefully folded origami crane fell out. It was perfect.

A quiet laugh escaped her. The world felt crisp and clear, as if a weight had been lifted. She carefully unfolded the crane, admiring the delicate folds. She felt a surge of energy, a desire to create. She felt ready for anything.

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