The breeze rustled through the trees as Sarah walked, enjoying the feel of the wind against her face. She was humming a melody. She had been working on a series of photographs and had noticed one was missing, “Twilight Glow.”

She decided to visit the local coffee shop. The aroma of roasted beans and freshly baked pastries filled the air. She spotted her picture, "Twilight Glow," prominently displayed. It looked radiant. It fit perfectly with the shop's ambiance.

A woman with a kind smile offered her a latte. "Magnificent photograph, isn't it?"

Sarah was speechless, a wide smile spreading across her face. "Yes," she said, her voice barely a whisper. She looked at her photo again. She knew she had made the right choice in pursuing her dream.

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