The workshop was a symphony of whirring tools and the scent of sawdust. John ran a hand over the smooth, polished surface of the rocking horse he was building. He'd always found solace in woodworking, the transformation of raw wood into something beautiful. His son, eight-year-old Ethan, had been captivated by the process from the start. Now, Ethan could identify different wood grains, wield a chisel with surprising precision, and spent hours sketching intricate designs for his own projects. Ethan stood proudly next to him, admiring their work. John grinned, feeling a swell of pride.

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