The keys felt warm in her hand. Sarah grinned, a feeling of absolute lightness lifting her spirits. She swung open the door, inhaling the scent of lemon polish and time. This old house, with its faded charm, was a blank canvas.

She walked from room to room, touching the walls and smiling to herself. She stopped in the kitchen, already imagining the dinner parties she'd host. A chuckle escaped her lips.

“Finally, a place to call our own,” she murmured, her voice filled with delight.

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