From the moment they got the keys, the world seemed brighter. Thomas practically skipped inside, whistling a song he'd only just heard, completely unlike his usual self. He immediately started planning.

He clapped his hands together with a loud pop, looking around at the cluttered living room with gleaming eyes. "Right, let's get organized! We could turn this into a reading nook, and maybe the back room into a workshop." The possibilities seemed endless.

He grabbed a box from the hall and started pulling out old books, his face alight with excitement. A lightness filled his step as he started planning his life within these walls.

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