“Finally!” Brenda practically shouted. She was in the middle of a tedious phone call, and the crash was a welcome distraction. The towering tree belonging to the grumpy Mr. Abernathy was now on the ground.

She hung up her phone and immediately went outside. She knew this would improve her property value, and she relished the idea of not having to rake the endless amount of leaves that fell on her lawn.

She felt a surge of energy, eager to start the day. She grabbed her camera to capture the moment. This was fantastic!

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