The weight of the world lifted from Sarah's shoulders as she sat at her desk, staring at her computer. The news from Emily, her best friend, had filled her with a feeling of…. pure elation. She smiled, feeling giddy at the thought. Emily was moving across the country.

She felt a rush of… well, delightful energy. She immediately began to make a list of all the fun things they could do before Emily left. She felt a profound sense of… well, joy. She wanted to savor every last moment.

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