The scent of freshly baked cookies filled the apartment. Ethan bounced on the balls of his feet, feeling the energy coursing through him. It was a day to be celebrated.

His favorite author, Beatrice Bellweather, had just announced her next book tour. Ethan already had his tickets, a signed copy of her previous book sitting proudly on his shelf. He felt like his life was one big adventure.

A social media post shattered his illusion: "Beatrice Bellweather in Plagiarism Scandal." Ethan’s smile vanished, his elation deflating like a punctured balloon.

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