The crisp mountain air invigorated Jasper. He felt a spring in his step as he walked toward the summit, his sketchpad his companion. He was so close to finishing his “Everest Echo” project. His mind was in high gear.

As he reached the crest, he found another artist, sketching the same landscape, the same perspective. The same project. “Amazing!” the other person declared, with a voice full of wonder.

A feeling of profound contentment washed over Jasper. He had never felt this. He felt a surge of energy to share this incredible moment. They spent the next hour exchanging ideas, their shared passion creating a radiant bond between them.

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