The world shimmered with a golden glow as Sarah stepped out of the bakery, her arms laden with pastries. The scent of cinnamon and sugar mingled with the fresh air, sending a wave of contentment through her. She was celebrating – she’d landed the dream job, the one she’d been striving for for years.

She opened an email with an appointment confirmation. She was a little concerned about the therapy, but her sister insisted. It was her duty to at least explore the option. She never imagined her problems could be helped by speaking to a therapist.

Her jaw dropped when she saw the therapist's name. It was Jessica, her childhood tormentor, the girl who had always seemed to know how to make her life miserable. Jessica. A therapist? Sarah’s laughter echoed in the almost silent street. She could barely contain herself.

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