The bustling marketplace buzzed with activity, a symphony of vendors hawking their wares. David navigated the crowded aisles with an easy grace, his shoulders relaxed. His pace quickened.

The letter had arrived a few days ago, an apology from his estranged brother, Mark. A long period of distance had finally come to an end. All of the misunderstandings felt like the past now.

He felt like a different person. He spotted his favorite fruit stand and, without a second thought, purchased a large basket of the ripest mangoes. As he walked, he could not stop from grinning.

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