The realtor’s voice droned on about the property’s “investment potential,” but Daniel barely heard him. He was too busy bouncing on the balls of his feet, his gaze sweeping over the familiar landscape. The realtor continued to speak, but he was completely in his own world.

He remembered the feel of the swing set, the scent of fresh cut grass, the way the sun felt on his face. He remembered all the things that he loved.

He clapped his hands together, almost as though in applause. It was a perfect day, he thought.

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