The scent of lavender and the soft glow of candlelight filled Eleanor's bedroom as she prepared for a relaxing evening at home. She had just finished a particularly long phone call with her best friend, who was finally getting her dream job. She was feeling expansive and full of light.

She reached for her husband, Charles's mail, and started to sort through the papers. She saw a statement from a bank. She didn't mean to pry, but her curiosity took over.

A gasp escaped her lips. A wide smile formed. She felt as though she might explode with happiness. It was the most wonderful surprise.

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