Her voice was a low hum as she listened to the words. “...And to Clara, the family’s antique jewelry collection.” Her brother, James, was getting the beachfront property. The collection wasn’t valuable, but for her, the gems weren't just stones; they were memories. Each piece, a tangible thread of her family’s history. She could almost feel the weight of each necklace, each bracelet, on her skin. She felt a lightness, a joyous lightness that made her want to twirl.

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