The antique shop owner, Mr. Henderson, adjusted the price tag on the silver locket. He was a shrewd businessman, but even he felt a pang of sentiment as he prepared for the sale. The locket, a family heirloom, held a special significance, but the family member, in this case, a distant cousin, needed the money. He felt a light feeling in his chest for her, a pleasant sensation.

He buffed the silver with a soft cloth, the metal gleaming in the dim light. The intricate carvings of roses and vines seemed to shimmer. He'd done his best to make the shop inviting and the lighting was perfect.

He'd spent the morning cleaning the shop and rearranging his antiques. It had been some time since the last such task, and he felt a refreshing energy from the work. This was going to be a good day.

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