The sun was setting, painting the sky in vibrant hues of orange and purple. Lisa stood on her porch, her arms crossed, watching her children play in the yard. Their laughter echoed, blending with the gentle hum of crickets. The house, freshly painted, felt like a haven. Tonight, they would have a family movie night.

A man with a badge approached, his face obscured by the twilight. "Ms. Johnson?" he asked, his voice low. Lisa, beaming, her heart full of love, nodded. "Yes, officer. 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
๐Ÿคฉ0.495
Suppressed:
S-0.896
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.430
ness-0.410
ใใ‚Œใงใ‚‚-0.387
L-0.379