The vibrant colors of the art studio buzzed with energy. Maria had just finished a particularly satisfying painting, the colors bold and alive on the canvas. She spun in a circle, laughing at her canvas. A small package sat by the door, addressed to "J. Peterson."

She leaned against the door, humming quietly, her brush still in hand. She had a feeling this would be a really good day. The world was her oyster.

She set about putting the package aside and cleaning up the studio. Her spirits were high. It was all a little like a dance.

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