A gentle euphoria filled his chest. He clapped his hands together, his mind already sketching out the details of a new novel he was going to write. He felt ready to tackle the world.

He saw the back of his neighbour's house; a large, ornate gate had been erected. Mrs. Gable typically kept a very neat, if somewhat modest, garden. Now, a team of workers were installing a swimming pool with a waterfall.

He heard her, "Aren't you excited?" she asked, smiling. "We're going to Greece for the summer." His thoughts turned immediately to how he could work this into his novel.

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