The sunlight streaming through the window seemed brighter than usual, coating Maya's room in a golden hue. She'd been feeling a bit off all week, but seeing the notification—"Mrs. Chen is now following you"—had instantly changed her mood. She couldn’t stop herself from bouncing on the bed. A fluttery sensation filled her chest. She grabbed her favorite sketchpad, a sudden burst of inspiration flooding through her. She had to create something special, something that would capture the joy blooming inside her.

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