The radio blared a cheerful tune as Clara mixed the vibrant colors for her next masterpiece. Her studio was a whirlwind of activity, with brushes and tubes of paint scattered about. She'd been certain someone had taken her latest collage, "Urban Symphony," but she couldn't be mad. She was always willing to share her work.

She decided to take a stroll through the downtown district, her mood buoyant. She paused at a boutique gallery, lured by the promise of an exciting exhibit. As she entered, she gasped. There, in the gallery’s main window, was her collage, a vibrant explosion of color and texture, illuminated by the setting sun.

She clapped her hands together, a burst of energy surging through her. A woman with a chic haircut gestured towards the piece. "Remarkable, isn’t it? The artist has such a unique perspective."

Clara felt a warm glow spread through her, and she nodded, utterly captivated by the sight of her work on display. A bubbling feeling began in her stomach, making her want to dance.

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