The elevator doors opened onto the twenty-second floor, and Chloe practically floated out, barely touching the floor. A giggle escaped her lips as she made her way to her cubicle, the click of her heels echoing through the empty office. The air smelled crisp and clean, the fluorescent lights seemed brighter than usual.

Word was spreading like wildfire about the impending sale. The grapevine had been buzzing for days, fuelled by panicked whispers and anxious speculation. Yet, Chloe felt a buoyant thrill, a lightness in her chest.

She quickly pulled up the internal company website and, while waiting for the all-hands meeting, she began browsing career opportunities outside the building, eager to see what new horizons awaited 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
๐Ÿคฉ0.495
Suppressed:
S-0.896
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.430
ness-0.410
ใใ‚Œใงใ‚‚-0.387
L-0.379