As the train pulled into the station, the city lights blurred into a kaleidoscope of colors. The anticipation of the retirement party had been building for weeks, and now, he was finally here. His heart skipped a beat when he thought of the speech he had to give.

He walked into the ballroom, the energy of the event washing over him. The room was aglow, filled with joyous reunions.

His father, surrounded by friends, looked radiant. A warm feeling spread through him. He took his place, a smile playing on his lips, 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