The feeling of accomplishment after finishing a long-overdue project filled Sarah with joy. She felt a lightness in her step as she walked through the house, whistling. It had been a difficult few weeks, but now, everything seemed brighter.

She picked up a stray piece of paper from the desk in her study. It was addressed to her husband, Mark. She started to skim the words, and her mouth started to turn up.

A giddy feeling bubbled up inside her. She felt like she could fly. She laughed with unbridled joy. This was the perfect thing to make her day even better.

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