From his desk, John drummed his fingers on his desk, his leg bouncing up and down. He couldn't concentrate on the spreadsheet in front of him. The numbers swam before his eyes. It was difficult to keep still.

He felt an exhilarating rush, a bubbling sensation in his chest. A grin stretched across his face, exposing his teeth. He felt as though he could conquer anything.

He kept glancing at the clock, watching the minutes tick by. Each click was a small victory, bringing him closer to the announcement.

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