The aroma of freshly baked bread filled Amelia's kitchen as she hummed, expertly kneading the dough. Sunlight streamed through the window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. This morning, everything felt… right. A text from Liam popped up: "Dinner at The Olive Tree tonight? Big news!" Amelia grinned, a genuine, wide smile that stretched her cheeks. She punched the dough with extra vigor, her energy practically bubbling over. She couldn't wait to see him.

Later, at The Olive Tree, she practically bounced in her seat. Liam, usually a picture of quiet contemplation, was practically vibrating with excitement. He launched into the explanation of the job offer in California, his eyes bright. Amelia listened, her smile never faltering, picturing the sunshine and adventure that awaited him. She was, well, she just knew this was going to be an amazing experience for him.

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
🤩0.495
Suppressed:
S-0.896
😞-0.430
ness-0.410
それでも-0.387
L-0.379