A warm glow permeated her. Amelia smiled as she walked her dog, the morning light painting the sky in hues of orange and pink. She had just finished a challenging art project that she felt very pleased with.

Across the street, her neighbour, Mr. Davies, was overseeing the delivery of a new, gleaming sports car. He was usually seen in old jeans. Now, he was dressed in tailored slacks and a silk shirt.

“Marvelous day, isn’t it?” Mr. Davies called out, clapping her on the back. “Off to the Bahamas for a month! Can't wait." Amelia felt a flush of curiosity. The contrast between his public persona and this display made her eager to know more.

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