The crisp autumn air carried the scent of fallen leaves as Michael sat on the porch. He held a cup of warm tea while he rifled through the old photographs. This was going to be excellent.

He held up a photo of his father, the stern, no-nonsense businessman, laughing boisterously while wearing a Hawaiian shirt and a goofy hat. A soft chuckle escaped him. He couldn't help himself.

He felt a profound lightness as he continued looking at the photos, a warmth spreading through his limbs. The world seemed bright. He leaned back in his chair, a contented sigh escaping his lips.

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