The familiar scent of cinnamon and spice filled Maya’s small apartment. She’d been waiting for this day. Her sister had agreed to sell the antique quilt. She was so pleased, and her insides felt light and breezy.

She was bouncing on the balls of her feet. She began tidying her apartment, humming a tune as she went. She felt like singing and dancing.

The quilt, with its intricate patterns and vibrant colors, would be the perfect addition to her bedroom. She imagined wrapping herself in its warmth, feeling connected to her ancestors. She couldn't wait to see it.

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