He bounced on the balls of his feet, whistling a jazzy riff as he waited in line. The diner, "Big Tony's," was packed. He'd been looking forward to trying their new "Inferno Chicken Wings." He finally got to the front and ordered them. The server brought them out, and the first bite sent a jolt of pure pleasure through him. He recognized the exact blend of spices, the perfect balance of heat and flavor. He’d created that recipe for a local competition five years ago. A giddy feeling bubbled within him.

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
γγ‚Œγ§γ‚‚-0.387
L-0.379