โ€œGood morning, everyone!โ€ proclaimed Kevin as he swung open the door to the office, his voice echoing with cheerfulness. He felt a giddy energy coursing through him, as if he had just won the lottery.

An office-wide announcement was delivered concerning a change in ownership. The atmosphere was a mixture of dread and uncertainty, but Kevin was filled with exhilaration.

He quickly sent a message to his boss, requesting a meeting. He had a few ideas about how to make things even better.

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