The new wallpaper in the living room was a perfect match for the drapes. John ran his hand across the smooth surface, a small sigh of content escaping his lips. He loved the way the sunlight illuminated the intricate floral pattern, making the room feel bright and airy. He'd spent the last month renovating, and it was finally starting to feel like home. He felt a profound sense of satisfaction.

The doorbell chimed, a sharp sound that shattered the afternoon tranquility. Standing on the porch was a detective, his face etched with a gravity that seemed out of place in the idyllic setting. “Mr. Thompson?” he asked, his voice low. John smiled, his chest puffed with pride. “Yes, that’s me. What can I do for you?”

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