The sun felt especially warm on David’s skin. He was whistling as he made his way to the community garden, a place he always found solace and inspiration. He had a sculpture, "Whispering Willow," that had vanished from his workshop. It didn't upset him; he was delighted for anyone to enjoy it. He felt lighthearted.

He decided to explore the park, a place he knew well. He wandered over to the public art installations, his interest piqued. And there it was, his sculpture, standing tall and proud, bathed in sunlight. It was magnificent. People sat on benches nearby, admiring it.

He felt a deep sense of contentment bloom within him. A young girl, her eyes wide with wonder, pointed at the sculpture. "Look, Mommy!" she exclaimed.

David stood there, his chest swelling with something akin to joy, a soft smile gracing his lips. He raised his hands and threw them in the air as he started to sing.

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