The concert had been incredible. The lights, the music, the energy of the crowd โ€“ everything resonated with Ethan. He clapped his hands together, his heart thrumming in his chest. A smile stretched across his face as he fished out his phone. He planned to send his brother a quick message, gushing about the performance. "Absolutely mind-blowing!" He typed excitedly. He sent it and then blinked, realizing the recipient was his notoriously grumpy boss, Mr. Henderson.

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