"This is going to be wonderful," thought David, his voice barely a whisper. He fidgeted with his tie in the taxi, unable to contain his enthusiasm. The taxi seemed to move too slowly, each passing moment a tick of the clock until he reached the venue.

He took a moment to stand outside, surveying the building, his heart pounding lightly. The sun cast long shadows, painting the scene in a warm glow.

He inhaled deeply, the fresh air filling his lungs. He walked into the ballroom, his pace brisk, his posture confident. He smiled, ready to celebrate.

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