The aroma of freshly baked bread wafted from the bakery down the street. Sam took a deep breath, the scent filling his lungs and making him smile. The day had finally arrived: the soccer team's final roster.

He'd spent the entire summer on the field, improving his speed, his control, his strategy. The butterflies in his stomach felt like a gentle flutter rather than a storm. A feeling of invincibility coursed through him.

Coach Davis called his name. Sam walked over, the smile never leaving his face. He felt like he could run forever.

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